Vocabulary
Food Webs
Biomes
Biodiversity
Misc.
100

An organism that cannot produce its food.

What is a Heterotroph?

100

Organisms that have a strictly meat.

What is a Carnivore?

100

A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.

What is a biome?

100

In biology, these factors are the living things in ecosystems.

What is Biotic?

100

The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.

What is a host?

200

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?

200

These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.

What is primary?

200

 In biology, these organisms eat both plants, vegetation and meat.

What is an Omnivore?

200

In biology, the earths (blank) is the area where living things exists.

What is the Biosphere?

200

An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.

What is an 

300

These organisms can make their own food.

What is an autotrophs?

300

These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.

What is tertiary?

300

Also known as autotrophs, these organisms are prey to the consumers.

What is a Producer?

300

Examples of this term: The Great Barrier Reef.

What is a Community?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down wases and dad organisms.

What is a decomposer?

400

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?

400

Organisms that are decomposers are also known as these.

What is a Detritovore?

400

These are living things made up of cells and matter.

What are Organisms?

400

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.

What is predation?

500

All of these organisms are a type of bacteria and are aquatic, photosynthetic and autotrophs.

What is Cyanobacteria?

500

In ecology, this term refers to the flow of energy through the food chain.

What is the energy flow?

500

In biology, this term means to not be alive.

What is Abiotic?

500

A graphical representation of relationships between different organisms.

What are Ecological pyramids?

500

A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

What is a species?