APBio Ecology Vocab a

The organisms that make up a community and the nonliving parts of the environment that they interact with are a(n)

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

Plants that convert energy from the sun are also called

• decomposers

• primary consumers

• secondary consumers

• producers

An individual belonging to a specific species is a

• Biotic

• Community

• Organism

• Reptile

The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

Organisms that break down decaying material are

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers

Which terms are used to refer to heterotrophic organisms?

• consumer and producer

• consumer, producer, and decomposer

• consumer and decomposer

an organism that must consume other organisms for energy

• producer/autotroph

• heterotroph

• chemotroph

an organism that must consume other organisms for nutrients

• consumer

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse

• scavenger

• decomposer