Ecological Organization
Another word for "a non-living organism in an ecosystem"
Abiotic Factor
A organism that only eats meat
Carnivore
What is the source of all energy on earth?
The Sun
True or False: All plants are heterotrophs.
FALSE
What is the term for an animal that hunts for its food.
A predator
Another word for "a living organism in an ecosystem"
Biotic factor
An organism that only eats plants
A herbivore
These are organisms that make their own food and come after the sun in a food chain.
Producers
What is an organism?
An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus
An organism that helps to pollinate flowers is known as a :
Pollinator
The weather is an example of what kind of factor?
Abiotic factor
An organism that eats both plants and animals
An omnivore
The organism that eats the producer is called this.
Primary consumer
Name three things a plant needs to do photosynthesis
What is air, sunlight, water
An organism that feeds on the feces and waste products produced by animals, that would otherwise accumulate in the environment.
Detrivore
A group of similar organisms is called a
Species
Another word for a producer, or an organism that makes its own food:
Autotroph
TRUE or FALSE: The second trophic level in a food chain includes the secondary consumers.
TRUE
When one organism (a parasite) feeds off of another host organism, causing harm, this is an example of what kind of ecological relationship?
Parasitism
What is another word for the specific job or role an organism has in an ecosystem?
A niche
A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area is called
A Population
Why do we need predators in our ecosystem?
Because without predators we have would have too much prey.
How much energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain?
10%
When two organisms work together in an ecosystem, this is an example of what kind of ecological relationship?
Symbiotic
Organism that obtains energy from dead organisms and recycles them into nutrients in the soil.
A decomposer