Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
The difference between abiotic and biotic factors is this.
What is abiotic= non-living, biotic= living
What is the role of a decomposer
to break down organic matter into energy
The relationship between 2 organisms where one benefits and the other is hurt
Parasitism
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
Autotrophs
What is another name for primary producers?
What is the difference between a food chain and food web?
This level contains all of life on earth
What is the biosphere
The relationship between 2 organisms where one benefits and the other is unbothered
Commensalism
A large area or geographical region with distinct plant and animal groups adapted to that environment.
What is a biome?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They get the least amount of sun's energy
What are tertiary consumers?
This is the fourth level of an energy pyramid (usually an omnivore).
What is the secondary consumer?
The relationship between 2 organisms where both benefit
Mutualism
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
What are the 3 types of consumers?
Carnivore, Omnivore, Herbivore
Plants make their own food (autotrophs) from carbon dioxide, water, and energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
Give an example we learned of all 3 symbiotic relationships
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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually goes in one direction.
What is a food chain?
The sun
What is the source of all energy?
What is a carrying capacity?
The largest amount of organisms an environment can support
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
What is symbiosis
long-term interaction between two different species, and the positive or negative relationships between them