Ecology Vocabulary Ecology Predator Prey Food Chain Food Web ...

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Prey. Food Chain. Food Web. Herbivore. Producer. Consumer. Diagrams that show the more complex feeding relationships amo
Ecology Vocabulary Match the definition with the correct term.

Ecology­ Predator­

Prey­

Diagrams that show the more complex feeding relationships among producers, comsumers, and decomposers.

Illustrate the relationship between prey and presator. Shows what eats what. Heterotrophs that survive on plants.

Food Chain­

Make their own food

Food Web­ Herbivore­ Producer­

Kill and eat other organisms.

Heterotrophs that eat other animals.

Killed for food.

The study of how organisms interzact with the living and nonliving things that surround them.

Consumer­

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Complete the food web Snakes

Frogs Seed­eating birds

Rabbits

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Identify one organism represented in the diagram that provides the vital link for the transfer of energy from the Sun to the other organisms in the ecosystem. Identify one predator/prey relationship that may occur in this ecosystem. [1] Predator: ____________________________ Prey: ____________________________

State one piece of evidence from the diagram that indicates that light penetrates to the bottom of the lake.

Identify the type of organism that is not visible in the diagram but must be present in this ecosystem to recycle the remains of dead organisms.

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Use the food web to create 5 food chains

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Parts To Your  Mural Ecosystem...Inlcude the environment with at least 10 animals and 5 different plants

Using your environment and your animal/plant choices, describe each vocabulary word

Abiotic Biotic Community Population Habitat Adaptations Predator Prey Producer Consumer Decomposer Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore Scavenger Food Chain Food Web Symbiosis 

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