Lions & Tigers
Organisms that are hunted and consumed by other organisms.
Organisms that hunt and consume other organisms to obtain food and energy.
Predator
All of these ecosystems on the earth and includes the atmosphere.
Biosphere
Series of interconnected food chains that show how energy flows through an ecosystem.
Food Web
physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
Abiotic
Organisms that "makes" its own food to obtain energy using sunlight.
Producer
Organisms that consumes food to obtain energy.
Consumer
Organisms that breakdown dead or decaying material and returns nutrients to the soil.
Decomposer
A group of only one species.
Population
involving interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.
Symbiotic
Group of many populations in a given area.
Community
Organisms that eat exclusively plants (plant-based diet).
Herbivore
Symbiotic relationship in which one is neither helped nor harmed (unaffected).
Commensalism
Organisms that eat plants and meat (other organisms).
Omnivore
Biotic
An interaction between two organsims in an environment.
Symbiosis
Pyramid used to show the hierarchal levels of biomass and energy in an ecosystem.
Energy Pyrimad
Used to show how organisms are related based on the food they eat.
Food Chain
Communities and their surrounding environment (includes ABIOTIC factors).
Ecosystem
Symbiotic relationship in which both organisms in the relationship benefit.
Mutualism
Organisms that eat exclusively meat (other organisms).
Carnivore
Symbiotic relationship on which one organism benefits and one is harmed.
Parasitism
Levels of organisms in an ecosystem that have the same function in a food web.
Trophic Level