Types of Organisms
An animal that captures and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
An organism that cannot make its own food, and gets energy from eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats a secondary consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
To cut and take apart a dead organism so you can study its internal parts.
What is dissect?
The living, the dead, and the very dead parts of an ecosystem that contain carbon.
What is organic matter?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
An organism that creates its own food or energy.
What is a producer?
Microscopic decomposers that break down both living and non-living matter.
What are bacteria?
A model of the flow of energy in an ecosystem that is shaped like a pyramid and shows the amount of consumers at each level.
What is a food pyramid?
The undigested parts of an owl’s food which are regurgitated through its beak.
What is an owl pellet?
An animal that is caught, killed, and consumed by another animal.
What is prey?
An organism that breaks down dead organic material.
What is a decomposer?
An animal that only eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
A network of pathways that show the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
When organisms of different species in an ecosystem rely on each other for survival.
What is interdependence?
Two words for an organism that eats producers.
What are herbivore and primary consumer?
An organism that eats a primary consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
A macroscopic decomposer that breaks down both living and dead organic material and is neither plant nor animal.
What is fungi?
The relationship between organisms when they share the same resource in an ecosystem.
What is competition?
A single pathway that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?