Vocabulary
All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions.
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that cannot make their own food.
What is a consumer?
An animal that is hunted by another animal.
What is prey?
A series of steps by which energy moves from one living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
The struggle of organisms for the same limited resources.
What is competition?
A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live.
An organisms that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
An animal that hunts another animal for food.
What is a predator?
What is The Sun?
The process of plants producing their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Different populations in an area that depend on each other to survive.
What is a community?
An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
The relationship between an alligator and a turtle.
What is a predator and prey relationship?
The first organism in a food chain or food web.
What is a producer?
An organism that gets its energy from consuming already dead organisms (carrion).
What is a scavenger?
A group of organisms of one species that live together in an area at the same time.
What is a popluation?
An organism that eats both plants and meat.
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed (host)
What is parasitism?
A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture.
What is a food web?
A species that is not native to the environment.
What is an invasive species?
A long term relationship between organisms.
What is symbiosis?
The first consumer in a food chain/food web.
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is not affected.
The amount of energy that is transferred from one organism to the next in a food chain or food web.
What is 10%.
Organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms.
What are decomposers?