terminology. 1. ecology the study of how organisms interact with their environment and each other
Post on 17-Jan-2016
215 Views
Preview:
TRANSCRIPT
TERMINOLOGY
1. EcologyThe study of how organisms interact with their environment and each other
2. EcosystemAll of the interacting parts of a biological community and its physical environment within a specific area. It can be natural or artificial, and temporary or permanent.
3. Producer
Organisms capable of making their own food from:
water, light and air
eg. of PRODUCERS
PLANTS
SOME BACTERIA
4. Consumer
Organisms that must eat other organisms for food
eg. of ConsumersThe cow eats the grass
The calf eats the milk
The lion eats the buffalo
The gull eats anything
5. Types of Consumers
Basking shark eating phytoplankton
a. Herbivore [what is a herbivore?]
5a. Herbivore
An organism that eats fresh plants as 90% or more of its diet
5b. Carnivore [What is a carnivore?]
5b. Carnivore
Wolf kills & eats deer Shark catches & eats fish
An organism that eats fresh meat as 90% or more of its diet
5c. Omnivore [What is an omnivore?]
5c. Omnivore
Dogs eats anything!lField rat eats seeds & insects
Organisms that eat a mixture of fresh plant & animal materials
6a. Detritus [What is detritus?]
6a. Detritus
Waste from plants and animals, including dead remains
Remains of dead animals or dead plants
6b. Decomposer [What is a decomposer?]
6b. Decomposer
Maggots
Vultures
Bacteria
Organisms that consume detritus
7. PestAn organism that is considered to be inconvenient in a particular situation
8. Food Chain [What is a food chain?]
8. Food Chain
Sequence of organisms, one feeding off another
9. Food Web A pictorial representation of all feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem
10. Habitat [What is an organism’s habitat?]
10. Habitat
Where an organism lives in its environment
lives in a hollow tree
lives in an old burrow
11. Niche [What is an organism’s niche?]
11. Niche
Everything an organism does to survive & reproduce
often refers to where it gets its food from as in the bird example on next slide
SHARING & NOT COMPETING
Each bird eats from a different part of the same tree
12. Species
- a group of organisms that mate in the natural world and produce fertile offspring
13a. Biotic factors
- the part of the environment that is living or was once living
- trees & grasses
- fungus
- insects- bacteria
- tree stump
13b. Abiotic factors
- the part of the environment that was never living
- water
- air
- sunlight
- rock [sand]
- temperature
14. Population
- all of the members of one species living in an area
15. Community- all of the different populations in an ecosystem
16. Ecotones
- the transition area between one ecosystem and another ecosystem
top related