Ecosystems 1
A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factor?
The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows.
What is habitat?
Any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need.
What is producer?
An animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers.
What is herbivore?
One of any living thing.
What is an organism?
All the living and non-living things in an environment, including their interactions with each other.
What is Ecosystems?
The path of the energy in food from one organism to another.
What is food chain?
The process in which plants create their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
An animal that eats another animal.
What is carnivore?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web?
What is energy pyramid?
A living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic factor?
The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem?
What is Food Web?
The things that a plant needs to make oxygen and sugar.
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that last over time.
What is symbiosis?
All the members of one species in an area.
What is population?
The dependence of every organism and its connections with other living and nonliving parst of its environment.
What is interdependence?
Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals.
What is consumer?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is predator?
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits both.
What is mutualism?
All the living things in an ecosystem.
What is community?
A characteristic that enables in living thing to survive in its environment.
What is Adaptations?
Any of the fungi or bacteria that break down dead plants and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil.
What is decomposer?
A living thing that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
A relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and benefits from that relationship while the other organism may be harmed by it.
What is parasitism?