What Type of
Consumer Am I?
Consumer Am I?
An organism with a diet of seeds, grass, and nuts. (H,O,C)
What is a herbivore?
Bees feed on nectar, while transferring pollen to help flowers reproduce.
What is an example of mutualism?
What the arrows in a food web or chain follow.
What is the transfer of energy?
Another word for producer that refers to something that can make it's own food.
What is an autotroph?
Describes the nonliving part of the environment including water rocks light and temperature.
What is an abiotic factor?
An organism that feeds on herbivores. Examples include small birds and mammals.
What is a secondary consumer?
Remora fish attach to sharks to travel, gain protection, and eat scraps from the shark's meals without harming the shark.
What is an example of commensalism?
An abiotic factor that is the start of every food web.
What is the sun?
Bacteria, fungi, worms
What are decomposers?
Any factors which prevent unlimited growth.
What are limiting factors?
An organism that feeds directly on producers. AKA herbivores. They make up the second trophic level.
What is a primary consumer?
Mistletoe grows on trees, extracting water and nutrients, which can harm or kill the host tree.
What is an example of parasitism?
A food web is multiple of these put together.
What are food chains?
They are very important to ecosystems because they break down dead organisms and return their nutrients back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
A biological interaction between the same or different organisms where the organisms fight for resources.
What is competition?
The type of consumer that humans are. (H,O,C)
What is an omnivore?
The Loa Loa worm infects the human blood stream and gets a nice warm safe home there. The human may go blind or have other complications as a result.
What is an example of parasitism?
This trophic level relies on an input of solar energy.
The first tropic level.
Often mistaken as a decomposer, this type of consumer is opportunistic. It will eat any roadkill it finds.
What is a scavenger?
the maximum population size of a species an environment can sustain, limited by resources like food, water, and space
What is carrying capacity?
Another name for an apex predator. They are carnivores that are at the top of the food chain.
What is a tertiary consumer?
As these cattle walk around eating grass they stir up lots of insects. The egrets hang around and get a yummy meal of insects.
What is an example of commensalism?
This trophic level has the largest amount of stored potential energy.
What is the first tropic level?
Heterotrophs that can eat anything from plants to large animals.
What are consumers?
A community of living organisms interacting with each other and their non-living environment.
What are ecosystems?