Ecology Vocab Review

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What is Secondary Succession?

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Secondary Succession is the process of ecological recovery that occurs in an area where a disturbance has destroyed a community but left the soil intact, allowing for quicker regrowth.

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What is a Food Web?

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A Food Web is a diagram that illustrates the many possible feeding relationships and energy flow between organisms in an ecosystem, showing how they are interconnected.

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What is a Carnivore?

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A Carnivore is an organism that primarily eats other animals. Examples include lions, wolves, and hawks.

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What is a Consumer?

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A Consumer is an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other organisms for energy. This includes herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.

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What is a Community in ecology?

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A Community is a group of different populations of organisms living and interacting with each other in the same area.

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What is a Producer?

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A Producer is an organism that can make its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, such as plants and algae.

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What is an Ecosystem?

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An Ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment, including both living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components.

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What is a Herbivore?

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A Herbivore is an organism that primarily eats plants. Examples include cows, rabbits, and deer.

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What is a Decomposer?

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A Decomposer is an organism that breaks down dead organic material, returning nutrients to the soil. Examples include fungi and bacteria.

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What is a Niche?

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A Niche is the role or function of an organism or species within an ecosystem, including its habitat, resource use, and interactions with other organisms.