Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are decomposers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
Long-term relationships between organisms
What is symbiosis?
A relationship between two organisms where one hunts the other
What is predation?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
The directions of the arrows show...
What is energy flow?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
What is 10%?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mututalism?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
The living parts of an ecosystem
What are communities?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
The number of individuals living within a specific location
What is population density?
Energy is lost as this between each trophic level
What is heat?
Example of a producer in a marine ecosystem
What is algae?
An association between two different species where the symbiont benefits and the host is harmed....
What is Parasitism?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
A top predator in a food chain.
What is apex predator?
Factors that occur regardless of how large the population is
What are density-independent factors?
A factor whose effects vary with population density
What are density-dependent factors?
An organism in a food chain that eats mostly herbivores.
What is secondary consumer?
Anything that constrains a population's size and keeps it from growing.
What is limiting factor?