Ecology Terms

Secondary Consumer

• An organism that eats primary consumers.

• An organism that produces its own food.

• An organism that eats secondary producers.

• An organism that decomposes organic material.

Omnivore

• An animal or person that eats a variety of food of both plant and animal origin.

• A creature that primarily feeds on plants.

• An organism that only consumes meat.

• A type of animal that only eats fruits.

Ecology

• The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.

• The study of animal behavior in captivity.

• The study of plant growth in different climates.

• The study of chemical processes in living organisms.

Photosynthesis

• The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.

• A method used by animals to convert food into energy.

• The process of breaking down glucose to release energy in the absence of oxygen.

• A technique used by plants to absorb water from the soil.

Abiotic

• Living organisms that interact with each other.

• Non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms.

• Processes that involve the transformation of energy in ecosystems.

• Biological factors that influence the growth of organisms.

Herbivore

• An animal that feeds on plants.

• An animal that feeds on meat.

• An animal that feeds on both plants and meat.

• An animal that primarily eats fruits.

Quaternary Consumer

• An organism that feeds on primary consumers.

• An organism that feeds on secondary consumers.

• An organism that feeds on tertiary consumers.

• An organism that feeds on quaternary producers.

Food Web

• A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

• A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

• A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.

• A type of food chain that only includes herbivores.

Population

• A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular area.

• A collection of different species in a habitat.

• The total number of organisms in a biome.

• A random sample of individuals from a larger group.

Biotic

• Living components of an environment.

• Non-living components of an environment.

• Chemical processes in an ecosystem.

• Physical features of the landscape.