Parts of an Ecosystem
Any organism that performs photosynthesis
What are green plants?
Animal that hunts for its food.
What is a Predator?
What do “Producers” produce?
What is Glucose (food)?
An organism’s role in the ecosystem
What is niche?
All of the energy that is present in an ecosystem comes from this source
What is the sun?
Any organism that must obtain food and eat to obtain nutrients
What is a Consumer?
Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
What is Prey?
Primary consumers in a food chain must always eat what kind of food?
What is Green Plants?
The maximum number of individual species an ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity?
Type of organism that can transform light energy into chemical energy
What are green plants?
Any organism that causes dead organism to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil
What are Decomposers?
Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits by harming another organism
(tapeworms, lice, etc)
What is Parasitism?
Term used to describe animals that eat both plants and other animals
What is an Omnivore?
Term used to describe a stable ecosystem
What is sustainable ecosystem?
Percentage of energy lost at each step up on the food chain.
What is 90%?
Term meaning “Organic material” that is present in an ecosystem. This type of factor is either an organism (dead or alive), or some product of an organism (like feces or tree sap).
What is a Biotic Factor?
Type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit from their close interaction.
What is Mutualism?
The term used to describe animals that eat producers.
What are herbivores?
Term used to describe a foreign species that enters a new ecosystem and has little competition
What is invasive, alien or exotic species?
How energy is lost as it is transferred to the next level of the food chain.
What is Used by the organism to carry out life functions?
Three examples of Abiotic Factors that could be found in an ecosystem.
What are Water, Carbon Dioxide, Temperature, Oxygen, Terrain, etc?
The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits from a close interaction and the other organism is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
Term used to describe a complicated pattern of overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
Failure of a species to adapt to a changing ecosystem will result in the ___________ of that species
What is extinction?
These two types of organisms must be present in order for an ecosystem to be self-sustaining.
What are producers and decomposers?