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Human-made (pipe, phone, car, etc.) or Earth-made (rock, ocean wave, etc.) object that was never alive.
What is abiotic?
An organism or object that is alive (crab, fish, etc.), was once alive (paper, pencil, etc.), or is a product of a living thing (seashell, etc.).
What is biotic?
An animal that eats flesh.
What is a carnivore?
An organism that feeds on plants.
What is an herbivore?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
The scientific study of the relationships between the living things (organisms) and their environments (both biotic and abiotic).
What is ecology?
An organism, usually a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances.
What is a decomposer?
An organism’s job or role in its environment.
What is a niche?
An organism, such as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances such as sunlight.
What is a producer?
This amount of energy is passed on from one level of the food chain to another.
What is 10%.
An organism, usually an animal, that feeds on plants and/or other animals.
What is a consumer?
A series of organisms, interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn is fed upon by a larger one, etc.
What is a food chain?
A series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer resource interactions. The interrelated food chains in an environment.
What is a food web?
Both must these things must be animals.
What are predator and prey?
A series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer resource interactions. The interrelated food chains in an environment.
What is a food web?
A major ecological community, extending over a large area, characterized by dominant vegetation.
What are biomes?
An environmental factor that tends to limit population size.
What is a limiting factor?
Most farmers use this to control insects.
What is pesticide?
This amount of poison is passed from one level of the food chain to another.
What is 100%?
This type of consumers are primary consumers.
What are herbivores?
Modifications of a species to survive in an ecological niche.
What are adaptations?
The maximum, equilibrium number of organisms of a particular species that can be supported indefinitely in a given environment.
What is carrying capacity?
These are the top level of the energy pyramid.
What are tertiary consumers?
This woman shed light on the harmful effects of DDT.
Who was Rachel Carson?
A model that shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next in an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?