What Eats What
Types of consumers
Energy Transfer
Biomes
Misc.
100
What is a producer?
makes its own food
100
What is the energy source of a herbivore?
producers
100
What is a food web?
sequence in whihc energy is transferred from one organism to the next
100
What is a biome?
a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants
100
What is commensalism?
One organism benefits, the other is not affected
200
What is a consumer?
Does not create its own food
200
What is the energy source of a carnivore?
Other consumers or meat
200
What is a food web?
shows many feeding relationships
200
What is latitude?
the distance north or south of the equator
200
What is a wetland?
periodically under water
300
What is an autotroph?
Makes its own food
300
What is the energy source of omnivores?
plants and animals
300
What is a trophic level?
each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain
300
What are 2 different types of forest?
Rain and temperate
300
What is a population?
all memebers of a species living in the same place at the same time
400
What is a heterotroph?
Consumes food to get energy
400
What is a decomposer?
Breaks down dead organims in an ecosystem
400
What is a pioneer species?
the first organism to colonize an newly available space
400
What is a tundra?
cold biome dominated by grasses
400
What is carrying capacity?
max amount of species a space can maintain forever
500
How do plants get their energy?
Photosynthesis
500
What type of consumer is a mushroom?
decomposer
500
What is succession?
gradual process of change and replacement of the types of species in a community
500
What type of adaptations would be needed to live in the desert?
handle heat, camo
500
What is a density dependent factor?
Space, food, and water
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