Vocabulary
These are the living things in an ecosystem
What is biotic factor?
These are the four types of consumers
What are herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and detritivores?
In a food web or food chain, this is who the arrow points at
What is the organism doing the eating?
These are the four types of relationships in a community
What is competition, predator/prey, cooperative, and symbiotic?
From where does most energy on Earth originate?
What is the sun?
These are all of the living things and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
This type of consumer only eats meat
What is a carnivore?
This type of organism starts a food web/food chain
What is a producer?
These are the three types of symbiotic relationships
What is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
This is a model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding relationships
What is a food chain?
This type of consumer only eats plants
What is an herbavore?
This is the order of a food chain that includes the following organisms: hawk, caterpillar, bluebird, grass
What is grass—> caterpillar—> bluebird—> hawk?
This type of relationship means organisms work together for survival
What is cooperative?
These are some key parts to a habitat
What are food, shelter, temperature, water, and atmosphere?
This is the type of relationship when one organism benefits and the other organism is not harmed, nor benefits from the relationship
What is commensalism?
This type of consumer eats plants and meat (animals)
What is an omnivore?
This type of symbiotic relationship means one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed
What is parasitism?
This is a close, long-term relationship between two species that usually involves the exchange of food or energy
What is symbiosis?
This type of consumer eats the remains of other organisms
What is a detritivore?
This type of relationship is when the population size goes up or down when one species is doing the hunting and the other species is being hunted
What is predator/prey?
These are six abiotic factors in an ecosystem
What are sun, climate, temperature, water, atmosphere, and soil?