Unit 15 Topic 4

Question 1

the role an organism plays in its environment or how it lives

Answer 1

Niche

Question 2

living things that can make their own food, mainly by photosynthesis

Answer 2

Producers/ autotrophs

Question 3

living things that cannot make their own food and thus must consume other living things

Answer 3

consumers/ heterotrophs

Question 4

consumer that eats only plants

Answer 4

Herbivore

Question 5

Consumer that eats only meat

Answer 5

Carnivore

Question 6

consumer that eats both meat and plants

Answer 6

Omnivore

Question 7

Consumer that eats only dead things

Answer 7

Scavenger

Question 8

consumer that recycles dead things

Answer 8

Decomposer

Question 9

a model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem

Answer 9

Food chain

Question 10

a model that shows how energy flows through all living things in an ecosystem

Answer 10

Food web

Question 11

a feeding level; which link in a food chain an organism is

Answer 11

Trophic level

Question 12

a model that shows the energy available at each trophic level of a food chain

Answer 12

Ecological/energy pyramid

Question 13

a model that shows the amount of biomass at each trophic level of a food chain

Answer 13

Biomass pyramid

Question 14

where an organism lives

Answer 14

Habitat