Environomental Systems P2

Examples of biotic components

• plants and bacterias

• temperature and humidity

• fungi and nutrients

• Photosyntesis and parasitism

Type of ecosystem that is not present in Mexico.

The order of events in an ecosystem, where one living organism eats another organism.

• Food web

• Food chain

• Heterotroph

• ecosystem

Organism that is capable to produce its own food

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

• Biotic

1. A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

• food web

• trophic level

• biomass

• consumers

The various steps in a food chain or ecological pyramid, at which the transfer of food (or energy) takes place from one organism to another

• organization levels

• species

• population

• trophic level

A particular type of organism that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

• animal

• specie

• ecosystem

• kingdom

Group or organisms that belong to the same species living in the same area at the same time.

• biosphere

• population

• system

• ecosystem

Group of populations living and interacting which each other in a common habitat.

Environment where a species normally lives.

• System

• habitat

• earth

• ecosystem