ecosytems Flashcards
(24 cards)
What does abiotic mean?
Non-living
What does biotic mean?
Living
What is photosynthesis?
The process of which a plant creates energy (glucose)
What is respiration?
Process when breathing in air, inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide
What is a carnivore?
Diet consists of only meat
What is an omnivore?
Diet consists of both meat and plants
What is a herbivore?
Diet consists of only plants
What is a producer?
An organism that creates its own food or energy
What is a consumer?
An organism that cannot produce its own food
What is a decomposer?
An organism that breaks down or eats decaying material for its energy source
What is a food chain?
Organisms that eat one another so that energy and nutrients go from one to the next
What is a food web?
Consist of all food chains in one ecosystem
What is prey?
Any organism that serves as a food source to one another
What is a predator?
An organism that captures and eats one another
What is ecology?
Study of natural science and organisms relationships among themselves and its environment
What is a habitat?
The natural home of any organism
What is a species?
A group of organisms
What is an organism?
Any living thing
What is an autotroph?
An organism that can produce its own food
What is a heterotroph?
An organism that eats other plants and animals
What is a competitor?
The interaction of organisms that leads to a change in fitness when they share the same resource.
What is Mutualism?
a relationship between two organisms where both benefit from the association.
What is parasitism?
One organism (the parasite) benefits from the relationship and the other (the host) is disadvantaged
What is Allelopathy
plants that produce secondary metabolites that prevent the growth of other plants in the same area.
