Types of Organisms Flashcards
Producer
Organism that uses energy from the sun to make food
Consumer
Organism that cannot make their own food, they must eat other organisms for energy
Decomposers
Organism that obtain energy or nutrients from dead organisms
Types of organisms
producer,consumer,decomposer
types of CONSUMERS
Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavenger
Herbivore
feed on plants
carnivore
feed on meat
omnivore
feeds on both meat and plant
scavenger
feed on dead or decaying plant or animal
food chain
linear sequence of feeding relationships
Food web
shows how one organism is a part of multiple food chains
How does energy travel
everytime the food chain goes the consumer or producer only gets 10% of energy
Trophic levels
Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumer , and the tertiary consumer.
if i had a plant and a rabbit eats it how much energy does the rabbit get
10%
What happens to the organism as the energy pyramid goes up
the higher the organism the smaller the organism get
What is a niche
an organims role or job
Different types of niche
Decomposers, Detritivores, Pollinators, Seed dispersers
Detrivore
type of consumer that eats wastes of animals
pollinator
organism that pollinates flowers
Seed dispersers
Animal that helps spread seeds around the area.
Major type of oppositional relationships
Competition, Predation
Major types of symbiotic relationships
Commensalism, Mutualism, Parasitism
Competition
When two organisms compete for the same food
Predation
When one organism feed on the other
Commensalism
when one benefits from the other while the other is nor harmed or affected
Mutualism
when both organisms benefit
Parasitism
When a parasite lives in a host, the parasite gets a home while the host gets harmed
Seven important processes to the water cycle
evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, collection, infiltration, absorption.
Evaporation
when liquid water turns into gas
Transpiration
plants store water in their leaves, this causes water to evaporate out the leaves and into the air
Condensation
Liquid in the atmosphere cools and tiny water droplets form on dust particles in the atmosphere to make clouds
Precipitation
Clouds become “too Heavy” with water and it starts to rain
collection
water gets on earths surface and it makes a runoff, runoffs bring water form the air to lakes and oceans
Infiltration
water on earths surface absorbs into the ground
Absoprtion
water in the soil will be taken up by plants through their roots
