Flashcards: Ecology terms

part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere

An animal that eats other animals

An organism that eats only plants

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

Place where an organism lives

An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.

An animal that eats both plants and animals

An organism that can make its own food.

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

living things

Non-living things

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

step in a food chain or food web

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume.