Quiz 2.8

A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem

• ecosystem

• nitrogen cycle

• energy pyramid

• food web

the scientific study of how organisms interact with their environment and all the other organisms that live in that environment

• biotic factor

• food chain

• ecosystem

• ecology

an organism that captures energy and stores it in food as chemical energy

• producer

• decomposer

• comsumer

• scavenger

a model of the feeding relationships between many different consumers and producers in an ecosystem

• food chain

• ecosystem

• food web

• energy pyramid

an organism that gets its energy by eating or consuming other organisms

• consumer

• producer

• scavenger

• decomposer

a particular environment and all the living things that are supported by it

• desert

• ecology

• ecocsystem

• tropical rainforest

the feeding relationship between a producer and a single chain of consumers in an ecosystem

• energy pyramid

• food web

• food chain

• cycle

organisms that break down dead plant and animal matter into simpler compounds

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers

• scavengers

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

Members of a species in a defined area

• Ecosystem
• community
• biodiversity
• population