levels of organization/symbiotic relationships/energy flow

Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating plants.

• Parasite

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Ominvore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Organisms that produce their own food mostly through photosynthesis . Examples are plants and algae.

• Ominvore

• Detritivore

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

Organisms that get their energy and nutrition from other organisms.

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Detritivore

Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

• Producer

• Trophic

• Decomposer

• Autotrooph

Parts of an ecosystem that are not living, and they interact with a living thing. Examples: water, soil, sunlight, temperature, altitude.

• Detritivores

• Herbivores

• Biotic Factors

• Abiotic Factors

An ecosystem includes

• All living factors

• All nonliving factors

• All nonliving and living factors

• All biomass anywhere

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Trophic Levels show the

• what grade each organism has achieved in the ecosystem

• position that an organism occupies in a food chain - what it eats, and what eats it

• part of the triangle the organism likes the most

• elevation the organism likes to live in

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Some type of producers obtain their energy by

• the process of hunting for prey

• the process of eating plants

• the process of photosynthesis to make their own food from sunlight

• the process of breaking down once living things

Omnivores make their energy by

• eating plants

• eating animals

• eating plants and animals

• eating decomposers

The job of decomposers in an ecosystem is to

• break down once living things from all levels of the ecosystem to recycle nutrients back to producers

• break down only top level consumers to recycle nutrients

• break down only producers to recycle nutrients

• give energy to all levels of the ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3