Pregunta | Respuesta |
Species | A group of organisms that can interbreed to create fertile offspring |
Population | A relatively isolated group of organisms of the same species |
Community | The organisms of all species living in a particular area |
Habitat | Where a population lives |
Biotic factors | Fcators affecting an organsim related to living organism |
Abiotic factors | Factors affecting an organism related to non - living things |
Niche | A role played within a communtiy eg. a top preadtor or its way of life |
Food chain | A sequence (usually shown as a diagram) of feeding relationships between organisms, showing who eats what and the movement of energy through trophic levels. |
Biomass | The dry mass of an organism |
Decomposer | An organism which eats dead organisms or animal droppings, and breaks them down into simple materials. |
food web | A network of food chains, showing how they all link together. |
photosynthesis | A chemical process used by plants and algae to make glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water, using light energy. Oxygen is produced as a by-product of photosynthesis. |
primary consumer | The name given to an organism that eats a producer. A herbivore |
producer | Plants that begin food chains by making energy from carbon dioxide and water. |
secondary consumer | An organism that obtains its energy by eating the primary consumer.secondary consumer |
tertiary consumer | An organism that obtains its energy by eating the secondary consumer. |
trophic level | The position of an organism in a food chain, food web or pyramid. |
invertebrate | An animal without a backbone |
organism | Living entity, eg animals, plants or microorganisms. |
herbivore | An animal that feeds only on plants. |
carnivore | An animal that eats meat or flesh only. |
Omnivore | An animal that eat both meat and plants |
Pyramids of number | A graphical way of representng the number of organisms in a food chain |
Pyramids of biomass | Pyramids of biomass represent the dry mass of organisms in a food chian |
Pyramids of energy | These represent the energy contained within the organisms in each trophoic level |
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