Food Chain
Which organisms does a food chain begin with?
Producers
Red fox
Consumer
What is the transfer of energy and nutrients through a community called?
A food chain
All the organisms of the same species that live in an ecosystem.
What is the coldest biome?
Tundra
What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals called?
Predator
Plankton
Producer
What occurs whenever two or more organisms are trying to use the same resources?
All the different species that live in a particular ecosystem.
Community
What is one reason animals might migrate?
to reproduce or raise young; to search for food or water; to avoid weather that is too hot or too cold
The sun
Earthworm
Decomposer
What are the special characteristics or skills that help living things survive in their environments?
Adaptations
An organism's specific function or job in the ecosystem.
Niche
A substance made of things that were never alive is _________.
inorganic
What are the animals that a predator hunts called?
Prey
Black Bear
Consumer
What is a special partnership in which two species interact with each other over a long period of time?
Symbiosis
The place where an organism lives.
Habitat
People who believe that God created the earth and all forms of life in six days are called _____________.
Creationists
What are several food chains linked together called?
Food Web
Fungi
Decomposer
Which type of organism eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
Each living member of an ecosystem.
Individual
The ability to do work is called __________.
Energy