What is a system where living things interact with other living and nonliving things.
100
consumer that eats primary consumers
What is a secondary consumer
100
What is a producer?
What is Plants that make their own food (USING PHOTOSYNTHESIS!)
100
What is prey?
What is animals that are hunted for food
200
What does abiotic mean?
What is non-living
200
Organism that feeds on or consumes other organisms.
What is a consumer.
200
Animal that eats plants.
What is a herbivore.
200
What is an omnivore?
What is an animal that eats both meat and plants.
200
Consumer that does not usually kills its own food.
What is a scavenger
300
Consumer that breaks down (decomposes) dead plants, animals, and waste products into smaller pieces.
What is decomposer
300
Animal that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore
300
Food chain or food web?
Visual representation of the feeding interaction bettered producers and consumers. Usually in a straight line.
What is food chain.
300
What is a native species?
What is a species that occurs naturally in a given area.
300
What is a tertiary consumers?
What is A consumer that eats a secondary consumer
400
What is the term for Factors controlling the number and health of biotic elements in an ecosystem.
What is limiting factors
400
A series of steps or cycle that allows abiotic elements to be used over and over again.
What is cycling of matter.
400
Visual representation showing the amount of energy transferred in each feeding interaction.
What is an energy pyramid
400
Name 4 Limitting factors
What is 1) Food availability 2) Predators 3) Climate 4) Suitable habitat
400
An ecosystem's ability to continue
What is sustainability
500
Accidental or planned introduction of a foreign species into a community.
What is bioinvasion.
500
What is a detritivore?
What is a consumer that feeds off waste
500
Food Chain or Food Web?
Interconnected food chains in an ecosystem that form a complex network of feeding relationships.
What is a food web.
500
Introduced species that is so successful in its new environment that it interferes with the natural ecosystem and the native species accept survive where the introduced species lives.
What is an invasive species
500
What is organic matter?
What is matter derived from living things, such as animal waste, dead insects, fallen leaves.