Types of Feeders
Feeding Relationships
Word Origin
Miscellanious
100

They are primary consumers.

What are herbivores?

100

The process of using the sun's energy to make food. Plants use this process to create their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

100
These are environmental conditions that restrict the growth of organisms or population in an ecosystem. 
What is limiting factors?
100

This is a close and long-term interaction between species or organisms. 

What is symbiosis?

200

They feed on PLANTS and ANIMALS.

What are omnivores?

200

This is the linear sequence of feeding relationships between organisms.

What is a food chain?

200

This is the maximum population size that an ecosystem can support. 

What is carrying capacity?

200

These are animals that can make their own food. 

What are autotrophs?

300

They feed only on animals.

What are carnivores?

300

These are animals that make their own food.

What are heterotrophs?

300

The role an organism plays in the environment.

What is niche?

300
The following organisms make their own food. Some examples are plants, algae, and bacteria. 

What are autotrophs?

400

They feed on dead or decaying plants and animals. 

What are scavengers?

400

This is a complex network of interconnected food chains that shows the feeding relationship within an ecosystem. 

What is a food web?

400

Where an organism lives. 

What is habitat?

400

This is the close relationship between two different species in an ecosystem. Examples include a clownfish and sea anemones and barnacles on whales. 

What is symbiosis?

500

They obtain nutrients from dead or decaying organisms.

What are decomposers?

500

This is a network of man's food chains. 

What is a food web?

500

This is the preying of one animal on others?

What is predation?

500
An example of this is a lion hunting and eating a zebra.

What is predation?