chapter 11 vocab Ecology

Question 1

Abiotic

Answer 1

non living things

Question 2

Biotic

Answer 2

living thins

Question 3

carnivore

Answer 3

A consumer that easts only animals

Question 4

Biomass

Answer 4

The total mass of an organism in a given area or volume

Question 5

Ecology

Answer 5

The study of how living things interact with each other and there environment

Question 6

Chemoautotrophs

Answer 6

Organisms that use chemicals as energy sources instead of light

Question 7

Decomposer

Answer 7

an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

Question 8

food chain

Answer 8

series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

Question 9

food web

Answer 9

a community of organism where there are several interrelated food chains

Question 10

habitat

Answer 10

The natural home or or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism

Question 11

niche

Answer 11

job of an organism in there ecosystem

Question 12

omnivore

Answer 12

an animal that eats both plants and animals

Question 13

photoautotrophs

Answer 13

organisms that use light as a source of energy to synthesize organic substances

Question 14

scavenger

Answer 14

a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms

Question 15

trophic level

Answer 15

each step in a food chain or food web