3.3 Study Flashcards
What is an autotroph?
An organism that converts abiotic energy into food.
What is the order of the trophic levels?
Producer, primary, secondary, tertiary, quartenary.
How do producers eats?
Makes it own food.
What do primary consumers eat?
Producers.
What do secondary consumers eat?
Primary consumers.
What do tertiary consumers eat?
Secondary consumers
What is Trophic Cascade?
When an apex predator is keeping an ecosystem together, but once said predator is gone the ecosystem is negatively affected.
What do quartenary consumers eat?
Tertiary consumers.
What is a herbivore?
An organism that eats plants.
What is an omnivore?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is a carnivore?
An organism that eats animals.
What is a detrivore?
An organism that eats dead organic material.
What is a heterotroph?
An organism that cannot produce its own food and eats other plants and animals.
What is a keystone species?
A species that is holding an ecosystem together and increases biodiversity.
What is the difference between a trophic cascade diagram and a food web?
A trophic cascade diagram shows how species affect eachother, while a food web shows what species eat and what their trophic levels are.
