Intro to Ecology & Nutritional Relationships

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

The particular role an organism plays in an ecosystem. 

• Consumer
• Predator
• Niche
• Symbiosis

Organisms in this category get their energy from both plant and animal matter. 

• Producer
• Carnivore
• Detrivore
• Omnivore

Organisms that make their own food are known as ______________. 

• Omnivores
• Detrivores
• Heterotrophs
• Autotrophs

These organisms break down organic matter and release it back into the environment. 
Ex: Bacteria, Fungi

• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Detritivores
• Decomposers

Abiotic parts of an ecosystem are

• Living

• Non-living

• Alive

• Observable with human eye

Ecology is the study of

• interactions between non-living things and their relationship with the sun

• interactions between living things and their relationship with the environment

• interactions between non-living things and their relationship with the environment

• interactions between living things and their relationship with each other

An individual plant, animal or single-celled bacteria

• Organism

• Species

• Population

• Biome