Biotic Stuff

Question 1

Food web

Answer 1

a model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 2

Food chain

Answer 2

a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things from one producer up the line of consumers

Question 3

Decomposer

Answer 3

organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

Question 4

Consumer

Answer 4

an organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food

Question 5

Producer

Answer 5

an organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

Question 6

Levels of organization

Answer 6

1 of an organism: species
Many of one species: population
All of the populations in an area: community
Communities with abiotic factors: ecosystem
All of the similar ecosystems in an area: biome
The earth: biosphere