an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
The ability for a plant to make its own food using sunlight
What is Photosynthesis?
Organisms that use energy from the Sun to make their own food through a process called photosynthesis?
What is a producer? What is an autotroph
A consumer that only eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
When a plant or animal changes to survive
What is adapt?
An animal that is hunted and consumed by other animals
Prey
One of the 3 major types of forest ecosystems, found in warmer areas with lots of rainfall and thousands of different organisms
What is tropical rain forests?
The straight, linear path of energy as it flows from one organism to the next
What is a food chain?
A consumer that eat both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
The ability for an animal to change colors to blend into it's environment
What is camouflage?
An organism that makes its food using energy from the Sun.
What is a producer?
A species that is introduced into a new ecosystem that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment.
What is an invasive species?
This is the main source of energy for almost all the food chains on Earth.
What is The Sun?
Consumers that only eats other animals
What is a carnivore?
When an organism sleeps all winter to conserve energy.
What is hibernation?
What is a group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring?
What is a species?
What are the 3 main factors that affect the population of a specific geographic area?
What are climate, landforms and natural resources?
What is a system of interlocking food chains?
What is a food web.
The name given to the top predator in an ecosystem.
What is an Apex or Tertiary Consumer?
Seasonal movement of animals to follow food supply
What is migration?
All the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
What is a treeless biome in cold regions that features large expanses of bare ground and low vegetation supporting unique animal life?
What is a tundra
This rule refers to the percentage of energy that is transferred in a food web.
What is the 10% rule.
What are organisms that break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil for plants to use.
What is a decomposer
what are the 3 main categories of adaptations?
What are Physiological, structural and behavioral