Vocabulary
The relationship between the killer whale and the leopard sea.
What is a predator/prey?
Living or once-living organisms in an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
The relationship between the killer whale and the leopard sea.
What is a predator/prey relationship?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
Nonliving elements in an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
In an ecosystem, an organism that has a relationship with other animals by consuming them?
What is a heterotroph?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
Produces its own food through photosynthesis
What is a producer?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is Apex/Top Consumer?
Deer are Biotic/Abiotic
What is biotic?
All energy flows, food chains and webs start with energy from this abiotic source.
What is the sun?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger or decomposer?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually, there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
Sunlight is Biotic/Abiotic
What is abiotic?
In a forest ecosystem, the rabbit that feeds on green plants would be considered a:
What is a primary consumer?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation or predator?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
Who provides the most energy in a food web or chain?
What is a producer?
The climate (weather) in a region is abiotic/biotic
What is abiotic?
An example of this organism relationship is a tick sucks on the blood of other organisms while also living partly inside the animal.
What is a parasite/host relationship?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a population of a species?