Ecosystem
Everything that makes up an ecosystem
What are all the living and non-living things in an area?
Organisms that make their own energy
What are producers?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that flows from producers to consumers
What is a food pyramid?
The transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and/or being eaten
What is a food chain?
An area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem
What is a habitat?
Organisms that get their energy from other organisms
What are consumers?
Where the majority of energy of a food pyramid can be found
What is the base/bottom of the food pyramid?
The beginning of every food chain
The members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem
What is a population?
Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
What are the types of consumers?
The part of the pyramid where the apex predator sits
What is the top of the pyramid?
A system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
What all organisms need to live
What is energy?
These consumers have teeth for cutting, tearing, and chewing.
What is Omnivore?
A source of energy that is not shown on the food pyramid
What is the sun?
True or False: A food web is unique for each ecosystem
True
The removal of any part of an ecosystem
What can affect the balance of an ecosystem?
Without these organisms, dead bodies would be left rotting everywhere
What are decomposers
The reason why the pyramid narrows as you move to the top
How do you represent the loss of energy from organism to organism?
When two or more living things need the same resources in order to survive
What is competition?