Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a carnivore?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
The type of succession that begins with some soil in place.
What is a secondary succession?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
Something that eats to survive
What is a consumer?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
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?
An organism that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What are abiotic factors?
Animals in an ecosystem must ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
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
In this model, the energy level is clearly modeled.
What is the energy pyramid?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
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?
Living and nonliving things are components of this
What are ecosystems?
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?
An association between two different species where the symbiont benefits and the host is harmed....
What is Parasitism?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
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.
What is ecology?
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
The type of succession beginning with bare rock.
What is primary succession?
An association between two different species where one species enjoys a benefit, and the other sees no benefit or harm. For example: 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 commensalism?
A tick on a dog is a symbiotic relationship.
What is Parasitism?