Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
something that eats to survive
What is a consumer?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms Ex. vulture
What are scavengers?
The arrows in a food chain represent
The flow of energy into the next trophic level
In a food web the mushroom and fungi are this type of heterotroph
What are decomposers?
Nonliving components or factors in an ecosystem
What are Abiotic factors
Any living thing breaks down the dead remains of organisms
What is a decomposer?
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
The lowest trophic level has this type of organism
What is a producer
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are herbivores?
Multiple paths of energy flow, multiple food chains together
Food web
Living organisms competing for food, territory and mates are this type of factor
What are biotic factors?
The type of consumer that feeds on the secondary consumer
Type of heterotroph that breaks down waste and dead plant and animal material to recycle to the environment e.g. worm
Detritivore
A species that is integral to the health of the ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
Type of consumer that eats the producer
What is a primary consumer