Ecology Flashcards
1
Q
Def of Abiotic
A
Non-living components of an ecosystem
2
Q
Def of biotic
A
Living components of an ecosystem
3
Q
Def of food chain
A
The feeding relationship among species in an ecosystem
4
Q
Def of niche
A
The function a species serves in its ecosystem
5
Q
What are the components of a niche
A
Where it lives
What it eats
What eats it
How it behaves
6
Q
Def of producers/autotrophs
A
Organism that uses the suns energy to make food
7
Q
Def of consumers/heterotrophs
A
Organism that eats other organism for food
8
Q
Def of herbivore
A
Consumes that only eats plants
