Ecosystem C1 Flashcards
What is an environment
Everything around an organisms is its environment.
What is organism?
An organism is any living thing .
What is an ecosystem
An ecosystem is a group of living and nonliving things and there environment .
What is ecology?
Ecology is the scientific study of the relationship between living things and their environment .
What is an ecologist?
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 an consumer?
A consumer is an organism that eats food .
What is an decomposer?
An organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material to the soil.
What is a food chain?
A food chain is a sequence of how use other organisms for food.
What is a predator?
A predator hunts another animal for food .
What is an prey?
A animal that is hunted.
What is an scavenger?
A scavenger is an animal that feeds on dead or decaying animals or things.
What is the meaning of hibernate?
Hibernate is to rest through the cold winter.
What is the meaning of migrate?
It is to move from one place to another, to avoid the cold.
What is the meaning of camouflage?
To blend into the environment.
