Plant Kingdom Flashcards
Organisms that produce their own food?
Autotrophs
Network of related food chains?
Food web
Population of organisms that is on the verge of being extinct?
Endangered
A type of consumer that eats plant material?
Herbivores
Single-celled, ubiquitous microorganisms that exist independently or as parasites?
Bacteria
The process plant used to make food?
Photosynthesis
Term that describes the partnership between organisms that helps one or both of them survive?
Symbiosis
Non-living factors that affect the survival of organisms?
Abiotic
The totality of genes, species, and ecosystems of a region?
Biodiversity
A biological environment consisting of all living organisms and the non-living components with which the organisms interact?
Ecosystem
An animal killed for food?
Prey
Consumers that feed upon organisms that other consumers have killed?
Scavengers
Green material on the leaves of the plant?
Chlorophyll
Natural home of a plant or animal?
Habitat