Ecology

Question 1

Food Chain

Answer 1

one possible path that energy and nutrients may take as they move through the ecosystem.

Question 2

Food Web

Answer 2

consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.

Question 3

Producers

Answer 3

make their own food and do not depend on any other organism for nutrition.

Question 4

autotrophs

Answer 4

make their own food and do not depend on any other organism for nutrition.

Question 5

Consumers

Answer 5

ear other organisms for food.

Question 6

Trophic Level

Answer 6

The grouping for organisms in a food web based on their role.

Question 7

Carnivore

Answer 7

Animals that eat other animals.

Question 8

Omnivore

Answer 8

Animals that eat both plants and animals

Question 9

Primary Consumer

Question 10

Herbivore

Answer 10

eat plants,algae, and other producers.

Question 11

Secondary Consumers

Answer 11

eat the herbivores or primary consumers.

Question 12

Tertiary Consumers

Answer 12

eat the secondary consumers.

Question 13

Apex Predator

Answer 13

top consumer or top predator.

Question 14

Detritivores

Answer 14

organisms that eat nonliving plant and animal remains (a scavenger)

Question 15

Scavenger

Answer 15

organisms that eat nonliving plant and animal (a detrivore)

Question 16

Decomposer

Answer 16

break down dead organisms into nutrient rich soil for use by producers.

Question 17

Environment

Answer 17

all the living and nonliving things that surround an organism.

Question 18

Biosphere

Answer 18

that part of Earth in which life can exist.

Question 19

Habitat

Answer 19

the location in which an organism lives.

Question 20

Species

Answer 20

a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can mate with each other to produce offspring.

Question 21

Population

Answer 21

the group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.

Question 22

Community

Answer 22

a group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment.

Question 23

Niche

Answer 23

the place or role that an organism has in its habitat.

Question 24

Competition

Answer 24

the interaction between organisms or species that use the same resources in which the health of one is negatively affected by the presence of the other.

Question 25

Biotic

Answer 25

all the living parts of an ecosystem.

Question 26

Abiotic

Answer 26

all the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Question 27

Predator

Answer 27

an animal that hunts and eats another animal.

Question 28

Prey

Answer 28

an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

Question 29

Parasite

Answer 29

an organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and obtains nourishment from the host but provides nothing back to that host.

Question 30

Host

Answer 30

organisms that are parasitized or subject to attack by one or more parasites.