Vocab
an animal that feeds on flesh/meat.
Carnivore
an animal that feeds on plants.
Herbivore
the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.
Food Web
A puppy
Carnivore
A tick attaches itself to you
Parasitism
a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
Ecosystem
a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
Food Chain
the natural home of an animal, plant, or other organism.
Habitat
Bears
Omnivore
A fish hides in seaweed
Commensalism
any kind of green plant. Green plants make their food by taking sunlight and using the energy to make sugar.
Producer
an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
Ominivore
any alteration in the structure or function of an organism by which the organism becomes better fitted to survive and multiply in its environment.
Adaptions
Deer
Herbivore
You get a tapeworm
Parasitism
an organism, usually a bacterium or fungus, that breaksdown the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances.
Decomposer
An organism that generally obtains food by feeding on other organisms.
Consumer
plants use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water with oxygen as a by product.
Photosynthesis
Mr. Brown
Omnivore
Pilot fish on sharks
Commensalism
the position that an organism occupies in a food chain - what it eats, and what eats it.
Trophic Level
a model that shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding level, to the next in an ecosystem.
Energy Pyramid
Usually a bacterium or fungus
Decomposer
A cactus
None of them
Hummingbird and flowers
Mutualism