Studied by 299 PeopleTags & Description
Producer
An organism that can make its own food.
Consumer
An organism that eats other organisms
Decomposer
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
photosynthesis
a process used by plants to make their own food from the sun's energy
Ecosystem
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment
Biotic
living things
Abiotic
Non-living things
carrying capacity
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
limiting factor
An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing
trophic level
Each step in a food chain, food web, or an energy pyramid
Herbivore (Primary Consumer)
A consumer that eats plants for energy
Omnivore
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
Carnivore
A consumer that eats only animals.
food web
A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
Equilibrium
A state of balance
Biodiversity
the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
predator-prey relationship
Interaction between two organisms of different species in which one organism captures and feeds on parts or all of another organism
Parasite-host relationship
when one organism feeds on another organism without killing it
apex predator
the predator on the top of the food web
