Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
Producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
Herbivore
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
Omnivore
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
Scavenger
An organism that eats plants and animals
Omnivore
Many of the same species is a...
Population
something that eats something else for food
consumer
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
Scavengers
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
Photosynthesis
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
Decomposers
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
Food chain
What is an organism that only eats plants
Herbivore
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
Abiotic Factors
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
compete
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
Decomposer
What are these organisms classified as bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
Decomposers
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
Food web
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
Producers
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
A relationship when both benefit each other.
Mutualism
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
ecosystem
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
Consumers
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
Ecosystems
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
Biotic
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
Consumer
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
Habitat
All the populations living in one place ?
Community
An association between two different species where the symbiont benefits and the host is harmed....
Parasitism
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
Niche
What is Ecology?
The study of how organisms interact with each other, how they are affected by their environment and how they, in turn, affect the environment that they live in
If 5000 Calories are available to the 1st trophic level, how many calories of energy will be passed to the quarternary consumer receive?
0.5 Calories
What is a similarity and a difference between and food chain and a food web?
S - Show trophic levels and feeding relationships.
D - Food webs show multiple food chains.
1) An association between two different species where one species enjoys a benefit, and the other is not significantly affected.
2) Provide an example
1) Commensalism
2)The cattle egret benefits when insects are flushed out of the vegetation while the herbivore is unaffected by the presence of the cattle egret.
What is the relationship between the Cymothoa exigua and the fish? Describe the relationship.
What is Parasitism?
The Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating isopod, enter a fish through the gills crawls into its mouth and replaces the tongue.