Biodiversity + Interdependence Flashcards
(23 cards)
Deforestation
Forests trees are being cleared
Land Degradation
A change in the land that reduces its conditions and therefore productivity
Urban Sprawl
The spread of urban areas into rural areas (Farmland, forest, costal land) that lie on the outer edge of cities
Consumer
Eat other organisms or their products to obtain energy
Herbivore
Animals that only eat plants
Producer
Uses Photosynthesis to create its own chemical energy
Carnivore
Animals that only eat other animals
Autotroph
Eat other organisms or their producers to obtain energy
Omnivore
Animals that eat both plants and animals
Primary consumer
Eat producers
Ecosystem
Made up of biotic and abiotic factors that interact with each other
Biotic factors
Living things
Abiotic factors
Non-living things
Habitat
Place where an organism lives
Predator
An animal that kills another animal
Prey
The animal that is killed by another
heterotrophs
Same as a consumer
Decomposers
Eg fungi and bacteria (digest food externally)
Food chain
Describes the feeding relationships between organisms
Arrows in food chain
The way energy is moved
Secondary consumer
Eats primary consumer
Food web
Interconnecting or linked food chains
Top order consumer
Animal with no predators
