Ecology Study Guide Flashcards
A combination of all the food chains in a community
Food Web
An organism that consumes/eats other organisms for food
consumer
A diagram that compares the amount of energy available at each position , or level in feeding order
Energy Pyramid
All living and non-living parts in an area
ecosystem
The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide
Photosynthesis
An organism that helps break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms
decomposer
The place where a species lives
habitat
All the populations living together in one area
community
An animal that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
scavenger
The study of the relationships among living and non living parts of an area
ecology
An organism that uses sunlight to make (Produce) sugar from water and carbon dioxide
producer
All the member of ONE SPECIES that live in the same area
Population
The role/job of a species on an ecosystem
niche
What do plants produce when they go through photosynthesis
sugar
All living things in a ecosystem
biotic
All non-living things in an ecosystem
abiotic
Producers are at the _________________ in an energy pyramid
bottom
Consumers are at the ______________ in an energy pyramid
top
All living things & Food chains begin with this
sun
Eats only plants
herbivore
eats only meats
carnivore
eats both plants and animals
omnivore
predators ______________ other animals
Hunt
If one organism I’d removed from the food chain, a _______________ change is made
Big
% of nitrogen in atmosphere
78%
All __________________things need nitrogen
living
2 natural causes of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere
Wildfires & volcanoes
2 human causes of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere
burning fossil fuels & driving cars
Over half the worlds species live here
rainforest
A zebra would be an example of what kind of consumer
Herbivore
