Ecosystems 1
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
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?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The population of a prey species in an ecosystem decreases, therefore the population of the predator species will ______ (increase/decrease).
What is decrease?
This diagram shows how organisms obtain energy in an environment.
What is a food web?
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materials (decomposing)
If there is a lot of rainfall in an ecosystem, there will be ______ competition.
High or Low
Low
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
Organism that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things, breaking them down into simpler forms and adding nutrients to the soil (ex: bacteria, worms, fungi)
What is a decomposer?
The study of the interactions between living things and their environments.
What is ecology?
The form of symbiosis where one organism is benefited and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
An organism that eats dead organisms
What are scavengers?
If there are lot of consumers, there will need to be a lot of ______ to support them.
What is producers?
The source of all energy in a food web.
What is the sun?
The form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
How much energy is transferred between trophic levels?
What is 10%?
grass -> grasshopper -> wasp -> bird -> bacteria and fungi
The secondary consumer is the ____
What is the wasp?
A bird eating leftover food in a crocodile's teeth is an example of...
What is mutualism?