ECOSYSTEM BASICS
This term describes a set of parts that form a complex whole.
What is a system?
This is a single living member of an ecosystem
What is an individual?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
Consumers that only eat plants.
What are herbivores?
A characteristic that helps an organism survive in its ecosystem.
What is an adaptation?
A relationship between two organisms where they share resources over a period of time.
What is symbiosis?
This includes all living and nonliving things in a specific area.
What is an ecosystem?
All organisms of one kind in an ecosystem make up this.
What is a population?
Living things that depend on producers for food.
What are consumers?
Consumers that only eat meat.
What are carnivores?
These tiny pores in a plant's leaves allow air and water to move in and out.
What are stomata?
When a relationship between two organisms helps both organisms.
What is mutualism?
The living things in an ecosystem are called this type of factor.
What is a biotic factor?
All the populations of organisms in an ecosystem form this.
What is a community?
This organism helps break down dead things
What is a decomposer?
These consumers eat both plants and meat.
What are omnivores?
These poisons protect a plant.
What are toxins?
A relationship that helps one partner but does not help nor harm the other partner.
What is commensalism?
The nonliving things in an ecosystem are called this type of factor.
What is an abiotic factor?
This is the portion of an ecosystem that an organism lives in.
What is a habitat?
The transfer of energy and matter from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
This type of consumer eats things that have already died.
What is a scavenger?
An organism that is active at night.
What is nocturnal?
A partnership between two organisms that helps one partner but harms the other.
What is parasitism?
This is the layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The specific job or role of an organism in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Several food chains linked together.
What is a food web?
An organism that eats other organisms.
What is a predator?
When a population moves from one ecosystem to another.
What is migration?
An organism that lives on or in another organism.
What is a parasite?
These are the smallest living things known.
What is bacteria?
These organisms can only be seen with a microscope.
What are microbes?
This shows how much energy flows from one organism to another.
What is an energy pyramid?
The organism that gets eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
Deep sleep through the winter months.
What is hibernation?
The organism that another organism lives on or in.
What is a host