Ecosystems 1
a non-living factor
What is abiotic?
A living factor
What is biotic?
when one organism benefits and one is neither harmed nor helped
commensalism
All energy in food webs comes from this
What is the sun?
In a food web, this is the role of fungi and bacteria
What are decomposers?
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
An animal that eats meat & plants
What is an omnivore?
3 examples of biotic factors
Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent this
What is the flow of energy?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
Temperature, water, soil, light, and rocks
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
What is it called when the sun energy is changed into sugars in a plant?
What is photosynthesis?
A snowshoe hare lives in the Tundra and has white fur. This fur helps it blend in with the snow and hide from predators. This is an example of a(n):
A. symbiosis
B. herbivore
C. ecosystem
D. adaptation
D
A mosquito sucking blood from a person is this type of relationship
What is parasitic (or parasitism)?
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
An animal that just eats plants
What is a herbivore?
chlorophyll
What is a green photosynthetic pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria?
A group of populations of organisms interacting with each other in a common habitat
What is a community?
An adaptation that helps an animal blend in with its surroundings
What is camouflage?
A place where an organism lives; its "address"
What is a habitat?
A group of the same species living in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
An organism's functional role within its ecosystem; its "job"
What is a niche?
What is the top of the food chain called?
A tertiary consumer