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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Ecology
Feeding Relationships
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100

These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.

What are Plants?

100
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
100
The law stating that energy can neither be created nor destroyed

What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?

100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
200
The sphere of earth that includes all the gases on earth

What is atmosphere?

200

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

What is primary?

200

The niche an organism occupies because of competition

What is the realized niche?

200

Relationships among two species living in close contact for some of or all of their lives

What is symbiosis?

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
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?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

The ability of an organism to survive in changing conditions, such as temperature

What is tolerance?

300

The relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unharmed/unaffected

What is commensalism?

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

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead 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

Interacting populations (many species together in one place)

What is community?

400

Another word for producers

What are autotrophs?

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500

What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?

What is 90%?

500

The broadest way living things are organized (organism --> population...)

What is the biosphere?

500

Another word for consumers

What is heterotroph?

500
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?