Types of Consumers
A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivores
An organism that makes their own food (plants)
Producers
a network of food chains illustrating energy and nutrients being passed from one organism to another
Food Web
Tolerance
An abiotic or biotic factor that limits the number of individuals that can live in an ecosystem
Limiting Factor
A consumer that only eats meat
Carnivores
An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
Consumer
A single pathway that illustrates energy and nutrients being passed from one organism to another
Food Chain
A particular group of organisms living in the same area
Population
Where is energy greatest in the food web?
At the bottom
A consumer that only eats both plants and meat
Omnivores
An organism that recycles dead organisms into chemical nutrients used in soil, air, and water
a large group of organisms which reproduce with each other
Species
This type of impact affects organisms immediately, occurs quickly, changes the behavior or organisms, and usually last five years of less
Short term environmental impact
The largest number of individuals of the same species that an area can support
Carrying Capacity
A consumer that eats bodies of dead organisms
Scavengers
What organisms are at the very top of the energy pyramid?
Apex Consumers
an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
Organism
This type of impact causes physical changes in DNA of organisms, affects organisms over subsequent generations, can cause extinction of species and occurs slowly over time
Long term environmental impact
All of the living and all of the physical nonliving factors in an area.
Ecosystem
Non-living elements in an ecosystem
Abiotic
A distinguishing characteristic or quality
Trait
The populations of organisms of different species in a specific area at a given time
Community
Living or once-living organisms in an ecosystem
Biotic Factors