Vocabulary
The function, position or role of a species within an ecosystem.
What is Niche
What is at the base of all ecological pyramids?
What is primary producers.
It is a relationship in which both species involved benefit.
What is mutualism?
It is a secondary or tertiary consumer, it eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
All the energy in any ecosystem ultimately comes from this.
What is the sun?
An ecosystem’s resource limit; the maximum number of individuals in a population that the ecosystem can support.
What is Carrying capacity?
Model that shows all feeding relationships that are possible.
What is a food web?
It is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
They can be found on any trophic level but the first, they eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
Food, water, space, and shelter
What is an organisms habitat provides?
An organism such as a bacterium or fungus that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making essential components available to plants and other organisms in the ecosystem.
What is a Decomposer?
They are at the top of the energy pyramid or at the end of the food chain. They receive the least amount of energy.
What is a tertiary consumer (top carnivore/predator)?
It is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is parasitism?
Organisms that eat plants only.
What is an herbivore?
All of the plants and animals living together in a certain area make up a ______________
What is a community?
A series of plants and animals linked by their feeding relationships and showing the transfer of food energy from one organism to another.
What is a Food Chain?
Each step of energy transfer through an ecosystem
What is trophic level?
The general term used to denote interactions between species.
What is symbiosis?
Invasive species can do so much damage to an environment because they have no natural _________ in their new environment
What is predators?
Animals are captured, marked, and released.
What is Mark and Recaptured Studies?
A graphical representation designed to show the relationship between energy and trophic levels of a given ecosystem.
What is a Energy Pyramid?
It is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
Whale sharks and remora fish are an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
What is mutualism?
The best known and most common primary producers harness solar energy through this process.
What is Photosynthesis?
Organisms require this to survive.
What is Food, Water, Oxygen, and space?