Ecology 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer (autotroph)
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Plants source of energy
What is sun
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer? (heterotroph)
A biome with the most biodiversity, a lot of precipitation, warm temperatures, a lot of trees
What is a tropical rainforest
A cold, dry biome, not a lot of wildlife
What is a Tundra
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
one organism of one species
What is an individual?
Something that restricts the number of organisms that can live in an area. (2x points)
What is a limiting factor?
Any living thing that feeds on already broken down dead bodies of other living things (mostly fungus and bacteria)
What is a decomposer?
An organism that eats primary and secondary consumers
What is a Tertiary consumer
Food chains that are interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
Organisms that create their own food
What are producers (autotrophs)
The living and nonliving things in an area and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On a trophic pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer
What are primary consumers?
all the species living in a particular area
What is a community?
Living and dead biomass in an ecosystem is called...
What is biotic?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
The percentage of energy gained from one organism consumer another
What is 10%
What is ecology?
The study of how organisms interact with each other, how they are affected by their environment and how they, in turn, affect the environment that they live in.
Many individuals of the same species in one area is a
What is a population?
A biome with warm and cool temperatures, a lot of grass, most commonly found in the central U.S.
What is a grassland
A cold biome that has evergreen trees, wildlife, and snow. Often associated with northern Canada
Taiga
A biome with trees and plenty of wildlife. Colder winters and warmer summers. Covers the northeast and some of the midwest of the United States.
Temperate forest
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
Define community
Multiple populations living in the same area
a density-dependent limiting factor in which organisms (or species) try to gather needed resources before others
What is competition?
The percentage of energy that is lost when an organism consumes another
What is 90%
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
How energy is transferred
What are the arrows on a food web showing
What happens to the total number of organisms as you move up a trophic pyramid?
decreases
The gradual changing of the plants and animals in an area after a disturbance is called...
Ecological Succession