The smallest unit of an ecosystem (based on Ecological Organization)
What is Organism?
A diagram in a series showing the transfer of energy from one organism to the next in an ecosystem.
For example: algae is eaten by snails/ ducks eat snails/ foxes eat ducks
What is a food chain?
A system of interconnected and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
A physical feature that helps an organism survive in it's environment.
What is a structural adaptation?
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
Group of animals of the same species within a given area
What is a Population?
Arrows in a food chain show that this is being transferred.
What is energy?
The organisms responsible for creating energy within a food web.
What are producers?
Something an animal does that helps it survive.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
Protecting animal habitats, recycling, and planting trees in a community are examples.
What are positive human factors?
Multiple populations of organisms within a given area.
What is a Community?
This is the SOURCE of energy in a food chain.
What is the sun?
Organisms in food webs that consume plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
What is camouflage?
Green algae in a farmer's pond is an example of this.
What is a producer?
All the organisms and the abiotic factors they depend on for survival within a given area.
What is an Ecosystem?
This is the first organism in a food chain.
What is a producer?
A bobcat is an example of one in this food web.
What is a carnivore?
Moving from one place to another. These animals are in search of a new temporary habitat because of the season, change of weather or lack of food.
What is migration?
In this ecosystem, the relationship between the fox and the rabbit.
sun--->clover--->rabbit--->fox
What is predator-prey?
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
What is a habitat?
This part of the food chain breaks down dead organisms and helps the nutrients go back into the soil.
What is a decomposer?
The number of carnivores in this food web.
What is 3?
When an animal looks like or sounds like another animal for survival (it can copy behaviors).
What is mimicry?
What are negative human factors?