Ecology #2

Illustrates the relationships between predator and prey

• Habitat destruction
• Climate change
• Photosynthesis
• Food chains or food webs

make their own food

• Chloroplast
• autotrophs

• heterotrophs

• Mitosis

Consumers that eat other animals

• Detritivores
• Omnivores
• Herbivores
• Carnivores

Consume food for energy

• Consume food for entertainment
• Consume food for sleep
• autotrophs

• heterotrophs

consumers that eat only plants

• predators
• omnivores
• carnivores
• herbivores

an organism that consumes dead organisms and organic wastes

• decomposer
• herbivore
• photosynthesis
• predator

a carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms

• scavenger
• omnivore
• herbivore
• predator

An organism that survives by living and feeding on other organisms

• predator
• herbivore
• carnivore
• parasite

What is a host?

• A host is a type of fruit.
• A host is a type of car.
• A host is a type of building material.
• the organism in a parasitic relationship provides a home and or food.

What is a food web?

• A food web is a type of spider web made of food items.
• A food web is a cooking website that specializes in web-based recipes.
• A food web is a type of food storage container.
• A food web is a diagram that shows the interconnected food chains within an ecosystem.