Ecology
This organism hunts and kills it's prey.
What is a predator?
An organisms that is hunted by a predator.
What is prey?
Why are producers and autotrophs so special?
What is another name for an autotroph?
Producer
Another name for a consumer.
Heterotroph
A cow is an example of this type of consumer.
What is a herbivore?
An organism that lives in or on a host, and causes harm.
Parasite
All of the living and nonliving things in a place make up an....
Ecosystem
The process by which autotrophs make food from the sun's energy.
What is photosynthesis
Organisms that eat both plants and meat
What are omnivores
An animal that feeds off of dead animals?
What is a scavenger or decomposer.
The study of the relationships of organisms to each other and to their physical environment.
What is Ecology?
General term for all organisms that must consume other organisms for their energy.
What are heterotrophs?
The animals that break down dead plant and animal material into chemical parts.
What is a decomposer?
The organism that is harmed by a parasite.
What is a host?
What do the arrows show in a food chain?
The flow of energy.
various answers
What process do the autotrophs that live near hydrothermal vents in the ocean use to produce their own energy?
Chemosynthesis
The sun or chemicals from deep sea vents
Why do we call the top predator the top predator?
end of the food chain (at the top)