Ecology Vivian Flashcards
1
Q
What is a producer?
A
An organism that makes its own food (usually through photosynthesis)
2
Q
What is a consumer?
A
An organism that eats each others organisms for energy
3
Q
What is a decomposer?
A
An organism that breaks down dead material for nutrients
4
Q
What is a food chain?
A
A sequence showing how energy is transferred from one organism to another
5
Q
What is a food web?
A
A network of connected food chains in a ecosystem
6
Q
What is carrying capacity?
A
The maximum number of organisms an environment can support
7
Q
What is symbiosis?
A
A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
8
Q
What is parasitism?
A
One organism benefits, the other is harmed
9
Q
What is mutualism?
A
Both organisms benefit
10
Q
What is commensalism?
A
One organism benefits, he other is unaffected
