Ecosystem Flashcards
What is ecology?
Ecology is the scientific of the relationship between living things and their environment.
What is an organism?
An organism is any living thing.
What is a ecologists?
A scientist who studies the relationship between living things and their environment is an ecologist.
What is a producer?
A producer is an organism that can make its own food.
What is a consumer?
A consumer is an organism that eats food
What is a decomposer?
A decomposer is an organism that breaks down dead plants and animal material to return it to the soil.
What is an food chain?
A food chain is a sequence of how organism s use other organisms for food.
What is a predator?
A predator hunts another animal for food.
What is prey?
The animal that is hunted is prey?
What is a scavenger?
A scavenger is an animal feeds on dead or decaying animals or things.
What is an environment?
Everything around an organism is a environment
