Ecosystem Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is ecology?
Ecology is the scientific of the relationship between living things and their environment.
What is an organism?
An organism is any living thing.
What is a ecologists?
A scientist who studies the relationship between living things and their environment is an ecologist.
What is a producer?
A producer is an organism that can make its own food.
What is a consumer?
A consumer is an organism that eats food
What is a decomposer?
A decomposer is an organism that breaks down dead plants and animal material to return it to the soil.
What is an food chain?
A food chain is a sequence of how organism s use other organisms for food.
What is a predator?
A predator hunts another animal for food.
What is prey?
The animal that is hunted is prey?
What is a scavenger?
A scavenger is an animal feeds on dead or decaying animals or things.
What is an environment?
Everything around an organism is a environment
