Vocabulary 1
living and non living things that an organism interacts with
environment
organisms that make their own food
producers
a consumer that only eats meat
struggle to survive
competition
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?
non-living factors
abiotic
a consumer that only eats plants
herbivore
this consists of who could eat whom (several food chains overlap each other)
food web
organisms that are eaten by predators
prey
living factors
biotic
consumers that eat dead animals
scavengers
the study of living things in their environment
ecology
consumers that eat plants and meat
omnivore
Living things that catch, kill, and eat other living things
predator
An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
the LIVING part of an ecosystem
community
organisms that feed directly or indirectly on producers because they can't make their own food
consumers
location of an organism along a food chain, starts with a producer, and it goes from greater energy on the bottom to less energy on the top
feeding levels on a food pyramid
relationship between 2 organisms in which one organism lives, near, on, or inside another organism and at leastone organism benefits
symbiosis
parts of the earth and its atmosphere where living things exsist
biosphere
a group of organisms of the same species that live together in the same area (like types of birds)
population
shows who did eat whom and starts with a producer
food chain
The combination of an organism’s needs, its habitat,and the role it plays in its habitat and how it affects and is affected by the living and non living things around it
niche
The result of natural selection is changes in the behavior and physical characteristics of species that make them better suited for their environment.
adaptation