What is an organism?
Any living thing
What is an organism that can make its own food?
Producer
What do we call an organism that hunts and eats another organism?
Predator
What is another word for producer?
Autotroph
What is a resource?
The food, water, shelter, and other things that an organism needs from its environment.
What do we call organisms that must eat food for energy?
Consumers
What do we call an organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator?
Prey
What is another word for consumer?
Heterotroph
What is a habitat?
An environment that provides the specific resources that and organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What are organisms that breakdown dead organisms for food?
Decomposers
What type of organism is always first in a food chain or food web?
Producer
What type of organism is this?
Consumer, carnivore
What are biotic factors? What are 2 examples?
Living parts of an ecosystem: plants & animals
What is a consumer that eats only plants?
Herbivore
What do the arrows in food chain, food web or energy pyramid show?
Where the energy is going
Is this a food chain or food web?
Food web
What are abiotic factors? What are 2 examples?
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem: water, air, sunlight
What is a consumer that eats only meat?
Carnivore
Which organism is the primary consumer in this food chain?
The bug
What are the producers in this food web?
Carrot, grass, grain
What are limiting factors? What are some examples?
Factors that limit or cause a decrease in a population: space, predators, weather conditions, diseases
What is a consumer that eats plants and animals?
Omnivore
How is a food web different from a food chain?
A food web shows all the food chains
How much energy is kept at each level?
10%