Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
Bears, humans, raccoons, many birds are this type of organism, based specifically on which foods they eat
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
A plant's source of energy
What is sun?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
An animal that feeds on dead and decaying animals; Give one example.
What are scavengers?
Vultures, crabs...
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
one organism of one species
What is an individual?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Severe heat, drought, floods, fire, natural disasters
What are density-independent limiting factors?
A biome categorized by warm weather year round, extremely wet and dry periods, and leaves that change through the seasons:
What is a tropical dry forest
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
What happens to energy when you move through the different trophic levels
The energy level goes down
The max number of organisms that can live in an area
What is carrying capacity?
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 primary consumers?
The 3 type of aquatic ecosystems
What are freshwater, marine (ocean), and estuaries?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
Define 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.
Animals that get its energy from autotrophs
What is a heterotroph?
This terrestrial biome contains the most diversity of plants and animals
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
The chief producers in the ocean are the
What are phytoplankton?
Which sequence illustrates a generalized food chain in a natural community?
1. producer herbivore carnivore
2. autotroph herbivore autotroph
3. heterotroph herbivore carnivore
4. Consumer autotroph carnivore
1. producer herbivore carnivore