ECO 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?
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?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
True or False: All ecosystems have a carrying capacity.
True
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
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
Spell out the acronym that represents the impact humans have on an ecosystem.
H.I.P.P.C.O
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 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?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
This consumer eats the primary consumer after it eats a producer.
Secondary consumer
This determines an ecosystem's population based on the resources available.
Carrying Capacity
What organism has the least amount of energy on an energy pyramid?
Apex predator
What is another name for a detritivore?
A scavenger