Vocab Quiz #15: Unit 4 Ecosystems 5

The top predator in an ecosystem; top of the food chain.

• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Apex Predator
• Producer

Adaptation which allows an organism to blend into their surroundings.

• Producer
• Symbiosis
• Camouflage
• Omnivore

The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources.

• Competition
• Limiting Factor
• Symbiosis
• Energy Pyramid

An organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter.

• Producer
• Consumer
• Scavenger
• Decomposer

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Energy Pyramid
• Tertiary Consumer

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.

• Food Energy
• Energy Pyramid
• Food Chain
• Food Web

A group of interdependent food chains in an ecosystem.

• Energy Pyramid
• Food Chain
• Food Web
• Consumers

Organisms that obtain energy by eating only plants.

• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Carnivore
• Decomposer

Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, or distribution of organisms.

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factor
• Competition
• Producer

An organism that eats producers.

• Producer
• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Tertiary Consumer