Ecosystems & Classifications

What is an ecosystem?

• All organisms living together along with the nonliving factors of the environment

• Sharing an environment with other populations.

• Group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring.

• Special role an organism plays in the habitat.

What is a community?

• Organisms living in one place with the nonliving factors of the environment.

• Species living in the same place at the same time.

• Organisms sharing the environment with other populations.

• A group of the same species.

What is it called when all organisms live in the same place at the same time?

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Community

• Species

What does it mean when an organism is part of the same species as another organism?

• They benefit from each other.

• They can mate and produce offspring.

• They are the same color.

• They share an environment in one specific area.

What is considered a limiting factor?

• Living space.

• Swimming holes.

• Rocks.

• Symbiosis.

What is a special role that an organism plays in a habitat?

• Predator

• Prey

• Niche

• Gathering

What is the term when two species have a close relationship?

• Symbiosis

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

The overall term when an organism that gets its food by eating other organisms.

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Consumer

What is a food chain?

• A chain of food.

• A path of energy moving from one organism to the next.

• A cycle of a specifc food.

• A web of several energy paths.

Where does the energy in most ecosystems come from?

• Primary producers

• The sun

• Secondary producers

• Tertiary consumers