Energy in Ecosystems
Plants need this to make sugars they used for food
Carbon dioxide
These only eat plants or producers
Herbivores
Food chain
Shows how food chains overlaps
Food web
Good for me good for you
Mutualism
The process of how plants make food is called
Photosynthesis
Meat eating consumers are a called
Carnivores
All food chains start with the
Sun
These put nutrients back into the soil
Good for me, doesn't harm or help you
Commensalism
Organisms that make their own food
Producers
Meat and plant eating consumers are called
Omnivores
The sun gives its energy to a
Producer
An organism that was brought into an ecosystem it does not belong
Invasive species
Good for me, bad for you
Parasitism
These organisms eat other living things to get energy
Consumers
The name for consumers that eat the dead bodies of other animals
Scavengers
A first level consumer is a
Herbivore
These limit the number of animals below them in the food chain
Predators
a dog and a tick
Parasitism
Bacteria or fungi are called
Decomposers
An organism in danger or running out is called
Extinct
Omnivores and carnivores
Arrows in a food web shows how energy is
Transferred
Commensalism