Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
Tell us the two types of aquatic ecosystems.
What is freshwater and saltwater.
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?
An organism in a food chain that eats the organisms which eat the producers.
What is a secondary consumer?
An animal that feeds on dead and decaying animals
What are scavengers?
The relationship between 2 organisms where 1 gets something good and 1 is not affected
What is commensalism?
The amount of energy transferred to each subsequent trophic level in a food web
What is 10%?
Animals that get its energy from autotrophs
What is a heterotroph?
All the different populations of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is a
What is a community?
Two types of an ecosystem are
terrestrial and aquatic
Relationship between 2 organisms where both get something good.
What is mutualism?
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 biotic and abiotic factors and the ways they interact in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
Relationship between 2 organisms where one gets something bad and one gets something good from it
What is parasitism?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is a
What is a population?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
Organisms that are supposed to live in a certain ecosystem
What is a native species?
The relationship between a dog and a flea?
What is parasitism?
Which shows a 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
This terrestrial biome contains the most diversity of plants and animals
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
Organisms that come from somewhere else, but start to take over the natural ecosystem
What are invasive species?