FOOD WEB VOCAB
What is the first trophic level in a food chain?
PRODUCER
Shows all of the connections of producers and consumers in a given area.
Food Web
During reproduction, organsims use up
Energy
The eastern red bat eats a variety of insects including mosquitoes. In this example, the eastern red bat is the
PREDATOR
The two components of an ecosystem
BIOTIC and ABIOTIC
an organism that eats both producers and consumers, and is often referred to as a “plant and meat eater.”
OMNIVORE
Eats ony plants.
Herbivores or primary consumer
The portion of the planet in which living things are found
BIOSPHERE
What do the arrows indicate in a food web?
FLOW OF ENERGY
Anything that limits the growth of a population
limiting factor
Other name for producers. An organism that makes its own food using sunlight or chemical energy.
AUTOTROPHS
Eats only meat.
Carnivores.
make a food chain with the following: -hawk -snake -seeds -mouse
Seeds - mouse - snake - hawk
in a food chain grass-->grasshopper-->frog-->snake. Which animal gets the least energy?
Snake
Population so large that it exceeds carrying capacity and damages the ecosystem?
What is an overpopulation
The animal at the top of the food chain is called
APEX PREDATOR
How much or many of an organism is in one certain space.
Population Density
Each step in a food chain or food web.
TROPHIC LEVELS
Draw a food chain on the board with 4 organisms.
ANSWER VARIES
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed.
What is commensalism
Each stage in a food chain or a food web is called?
TROPHIC LEVEL
The limit of how many organisms can be in a habitat or ecosystem
Carrying Capacity
This organism gains the suns energy by eating other organisms.
Consumers or Heterotrophs
A human is considered an
Apex predator
In a parasitic relationship, the parasite benefits, and the other organism, which is harmed, is called a "this."
Host