Levels of Organization
The specific "address" or place that provides the exact resources an organism needs.
What is a habitat?
Organisms that create their own food.
What are producers?
An interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.
What is symbiosis?
A group of the same species living together at the same time.
What is population?
Organisms that cannot make their own food and must consume others.
What are consumers?
The maximum number of individuals an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
All the different populations (different species) living in the same area.
What is community?
A complex network of interconnected food chains within a community.
What is a food web?
Resources that can be replenished by natural processes at least as quickly as they are used.
What is a renewable resource?
An organism's specific "job" or way of using resources.
What is niche?
Organisms that consume dead organisms and waste.
What are detritivores?
Natural resources that are used up faster than they can be replaced by natural processes.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
One organism (predator) hunts and eats another (prey).
What is predation?
Shows that energy is lost (mostly as heat) at every level.
What is an energy pyramid?
The exhaustion of one or more resources in an area.
What is resource depletion?