Ecosystem interactions Flashcards
(14 cards)
What is an ecological niche?
Role an organism plays in an ecosystem
What is a producer?
Produces energy for themselves by consuming other organisms either a producer or consumer
Whats a herbivor
eats producers (plants)
Whats an omnivore
eats consumers and producers ( animals and plants)
Whats a carnivore
eats other consumers ( animals)
Whats a scavenger
Organisms that eat dead or decaying plants and animals
whats a predator
kills and eats consumers
whats a decomposer
grows on dead animals, plants or waste and absorbs nutrients
whats a habitat
where it lives
whats a lifestyle
what it does
whats symbiosis
two organisms that live closely together in relationship[
Whats mutualism
both benefit from relationship
whats parasitism
one organism benefits and one is harmed
whats commensalism
one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed or benefited
