Ecology 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
This occurs when you move up trophic levels
What is the amount of available energy decreases
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
The living parts of an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
An association between two different species where the symbiont benefits and the host is harmed....
What is Parasitism?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
Typically the first organism to inhabit an area.
What is a Pioneer Species?
An association between two different species where one species enjoys a benefit, and the other is not significantly affected.
What is commensalism?
If 5000 Calories are available to the 1st trophic level, how many calories of energy will be passed to the quarternary consumer receive?
0.5 Calories
The orderly process where one biological community replaces another on bare rock where no life has been before.
What is Primary Succession?
The orderly replacement of communities after a disturbance.
What is Secondary Succession?