Ecosystems Key terms

Question 1

What is an Autotroph?

Answer 1

An organism that produces its own food/organic material (a producer)

Question 2

What is a heterotroph?

Answer 2

An organism that ingests organic material

Question 3

What is a producer?

Answer 3

An organism that gets its food from light/the sun

Question 4

What’s a saprotroph?

Answer 4

An organism that releases extracellular enzymes to digest dead/decaying matter externally

Question 5

What is a detritivore?

Answer 5

eats dead/decaying matter but digests it within the body

Question 6

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 6

all the living organisms and non living conditions that interact in an area

Question 7

What is a community?

Answer 7

All the populations of living organisms in a particular habitat

Question 8

What is a population?

Answer 8

All the organisms of one species in a habitat

Question 9

What is a biotic factor?

Answer 9

the living features of an ecosystem

Question 10

What is an abiotic factor?

Answer 10

the non living features of an ecosystem