Scinecias

Consumer: eat the food, transfer energy from level to level
Tropic level-feeding level
Interspecific competition: is a competition between members of the species
Parasitism: one organism benefitsand the other one is harmed:
Ecosystem: a community on interdependent organisms and the physical environment they inhabit
Symbiosis: An ecological relationship between organisms of two differentspecies that live together in direct contact.
Producer: One who produces the food (plants)
Primary consumer: Herbivore; eats producers ex: sea urchin
Secondary Consumer: Carnivore; eats primyconsumer ex: haaring
Tertiary Consumer: eats secondary consumer ex: seal
Quartuary consumer: Eats tertiary consumer ex: whale
Biotic factors: all living factors an environment ex: herbivore
BiotiticFactor: All non-living things factors in an environment ex: Ph.
Commensalism: is when one organism benefits and the other one is harmed
Intraspecific competition: is a competition when members ofdifferent species fight for food space light and plant species
Mutualism: Is when both organisms benefit from each other
Food chain: used to show how much energy and matter in an ecosystem up wards arrowflow of energy
Community: group of populations of different species living in the same area. Potentially interacting in an ecosystem
Decomposer: An organism that obtains energy by breaking downorganic matter into more simple substances
Producer/ autotroph: an organism that uses energy from the sun or inorganic molecules to make organic molecules
Population: group of individuals of the samespecies giving in the same area
Niche: the role o job of specie in an ecosystem
Food web: shows all the possible food chains in an ecosystem
Habitat: place where an organism or population or themlive
Prey: an organism that is killed in predation
Species: a group of organisms that are similar and produce fertile offspring
Biome: a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms...