Ecosystem Flashcards
Ecosystem
All the organisms living in a particular habitat and the non living componants
Population
The number of individual of one species found in an area
Community
All of the individuals of all the species in an area
Habitat
A place where a plant or organism lives
Producer
A green plant that can produce its own food
Consumer
Organism that eat other organisms to obtain energy
Herbivore
A consumer that only eats plants to obtain energy
Ominvore
Consumers that eat plants and animals to obtain energy
Carnivore
Consumer that eats other animals to obtain energy
Predator
Consumers that kill other animals to eat
Prey
Species which are killed by other consumers
Decompser
An organism that obtains its energy from dead and decaying plant and animal material
What do arrows represent in a food chain
The flow of energy in the food chain
Energy can be lost to
Heat
Movement
Undigested waste
Intraspecific competition
Same species, same resources