Ecosystems Flashcards
Plants that get there energy from the sun and create food and do not eat other producers
Producer
An organism that eats living things to provide energy
Consumers
An animal that eats and hunts other animals
Predators
An animal that has been hunted or eaten by an animal.
Prey
A group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can mate with other to produce offspring
Species
A group of organs of the same species living in the same area
Population
A group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment
Community
The many types of life that lives in an environment
Biodiversity
The part of the Earth in which life can exists
Biosphere
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
Food chain
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things
Food web
The location in which an organism lives
Habitat
A major ecological community such as the grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert
Biome
All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other
Ecosystem
The place or role that an organism has in its habitat
Niche
An relationship between organisms in which one depends on the others
Symbiosis
A relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which ones lives off the other and both organisms benefit.
Mutualism
a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either
Commensalism
a certain type of non mutual relationship found between two different species in which one organismknown as the parasitebenefits at the expense of the other organism
Parasitism
bacteria in the soil that makes it useable for plants and animals.
Bacteria fixing
Nitrogen gasses are affix to precipitation molecule
Lightening fixing
