Module 6 Vocab Flashcards
Define biosphere
The region of our planet where life resides the combo of all the ecosystems on earth
What is another name for producer
Autotroph
What us another name for consumer and herbivore
Heterothroph
Primary consumer
What is a consumer
An organism that is incapable of photosynthesis
What is a carnivore
A consumer that eats other consumers
What is a secondary consumer
Q carnivore that eats primary consumers
Give an example of a secondary consumer
Lions, Hawks, rattle snakes
What is a tertiary consumer
A carnivore that eats secondary consumers
what is are trophic levels
The successive levels of organisms consuming one another
What is the difference between the food chain and food web
Chain- does he point of consumption from producers to Tertiary consumers
Web- complex model of how energy and matter moves between trophic levels.
Do scavengers consume dead organisms
Yes think vultures
What are the roles of detritivores and decomposes
Detitties are organisms such as dung beetles as specialized in breaking down dead tissue and waste products decomposers are fungi/bacteria that convert organic matter into small elements in molecules that can be recycled into the ecosystem
