Vocabulary
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
This model shows all the ways energy moves across an ecosystem.
What does a food web show?
something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Non-living things in an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
Many of these are overlapping in a food web.
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
This model shows a single path of energy flowing from a single producer to a series of consumers.
What is a food chain?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
This interaction is when an animal hunts and eats another animal
What is predatory? (or predation)
These are used in both food chains and webs to show the movement of energy
What are arrows
These are consumers that eat consumers that eat plants.
What is a secondary consumer?
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
A 'role' or 'function' of an organisms ______ includes what it eats.
What is a niche?
This is the name for any interaction where two organisms live in a close relationship with each other
What is symbiosis?
This model shows how much energy is available at each trophic level
What is an energy pyramid?
On an energy pyramid, this is the name for organisms that eat the producers
What are primary consumers?
This organism does not need to eat, but it kind of eats the sun!
What is a producer?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis