Question | Answer |
What do we call all of the plants, animals, and their surroundings? | ecosystem |
What are abiotic factors? | non-living factors (sun, soil, water, air) |
What are biotic factors? | living factors (plants, animals, bacteria) |
What abioitc factor provides all energy for an ecosystem? | the sun |
What process is the link between an abiotic factor which provides all energy for our biosphere and the first tropic level of life? | photosynthesis |
What shows the greatest number of relationships between the organsim in an ecosystem? | food web |
What do we call an organism that makes its own food? | producer |
Which type of organism can obtain energy directly from any other organism in an ecosystem> | decomposer |
What one thing is VITAL to any stable ecosystem? | energy (the sun) |
What is the name of the network of all of the inter-related food chains in a biological community? | food web |
What is the sequence (order) of who eats whom in a biological community? | food chain |
What is the name of any organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms? | heterotroph |
What is the name of an organism that makes its food from light or chemical energy without eating? | autotroph |
What is the name of an organism that eats plants? | herbivore |
What is the name of an organism that eats meat? | carnivore |
What is the name of a meat-eater that eats primary consumers? | secondary consumer |
What is the name of a meat-eater that eats secondary consumers? | tertiary consumer |
What is the name of a meat-eater that eats tertiary consumers? | quaternary consumer |
What is the name of a meat-eater that eats autotrophs? | primary consumer |