Topic 4 - How organisms interact

Question 1

Niche

Answer 1

The organisms job or what the organism does in s habitat

Question 2

Biotic

Answer 2

Living things

Humans, Plants, Animals, Birds, Insects …

Question 3

Biomass

Answer 3

The total mass of living matter

Question 4

Decomposers

Answer 4

An organism that gets it’s a energy and nutrients from dead organisms and turns them into soil

Question 5

Energy Flow

Answer 5

The movement of energy, which originally comes from the sun, from one organism to another

Question 6

Food web

Answer 6

The network of feeding relationship among organisms

Question 7

Food chain

Answer 7

A sequence of feeding relationships among living organisms, as they pass on food energy.

Question 8

Predators

Answer 8

An organism that catches and eats other organisms of a different species

Question 9

Prey

Answer 9

An organism that is caught and eaten by another organism of a different species

Question 10

Omnivores

Answer 10

An animal that eats other animals and plant material

Question 11

Herbivore

Answer 11

An animal that eats only plant material

Question 12

Abiotic

Answer 12

Non-living things

Question 13

Pyramid of numbers

Answer 13

The number of individual organisms attach level of a food chain

Question 14

Carnivore

Answer 14

An animals that eats other animals

Question 15

Consumers

Answer 15

Organisms that eat the food made by producers

Question 16

Scavengers

Answer 16

An organism that eats dead or decaying plant or animal matter

Question 17

Producers

Answer 17

Plants that use energy from the sun to make nutrients they need to survive

Question 18

3 consumer groups

Answer 18

Herbivore
Omnivore
Carnivore