Topic 4 - How organisms interact Flashcards
Niche
The organisms job or what the organism does in s habitat
Biotic
Living things
Humans, Plants, Animals, Birds, Insects …
Biomass
The total mass of living matter
Decomposers
An organism that gets it’s a energy and nutrients from dead organisms and turns them into soil
Energy Flow
The movement of energy, which originally comes from the sun, from one organism to another
Food web
The network of feeding relationship among organisms
Food chain
A sequence of feeding relationships among living organisms, as they pass on food energy.
Predators
An organism that catches and eats other organisms of a different species
Prey
An organism that is caught and eaten by another organism of a different species
Omnivores
An animal that eats other animals and plant material
Herbivore
An animal that eats only plant material
Abiotic
Non-living things
Pyramid of numbers
The number of individual organisms attach level of a food chain
Carnivore
An animals that eats other animals
Consumers
Organisms that eat the food made by producers
