1. TERMS

2. 1. Ecology
The study of how organisms interact with their environment and each other

3. 2. Producer
Organisms capable of making their own food from: water, light and air

4. 3. Consumer
Organisms that must consume other organisms as a food source.

5. eg. of Consumers The cow eats the grass The calf eats the milk
The lion eats the buffalo
The gull eats anything

6. Types of Consumers a. Herbivore [what is a herbivore?]
Basking shark eating phytoplankton

7. 4. Herbivore
An organism that eats fresh plants as 90% or more of its diet

8. 5. Carnivore [What is a carnivore?]

9. 5. Carnivore
An organism that eats fresh meat as 90% or more of its diet.
Wolf kills & eats deer Shark catches & eats fish

10. 6. Omnivore [What is an omnivore?]

11. 6. Omnivore
Organisms that eat a mixture of fresh plant & animal materials.
Field rat eats seeds & insects
Dogs eats anything!

12. 7. Detritus [What is detritus?]

13. 7. Detritus Waste from plants and animals, including dead remains
Remains of dead animals or dead plants

14. 8. Decomposer [What is a decomposer?]

15. 8. Decomposer
An organism, often a bacterium or fungus, that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, thus making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem

16. 9. Food Chain [What is a food chain?]

17. 9. Food Chain
Sequence of organisms, one feeding off another

18. 10. Habitat [What is an organism’s habitat?]

19. Habitat
is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant or other type of organism. It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds (influences and is utilized by) a species population.

20. 8. Niche [What is an organism’s niche?]

21. 8. Niche Everything an organism does to survive & reproduce
This often refers to where it gets its food from as in the bird example on next slide

22. SHARING & NOT COMPETING
Each bird eats from a different part of the same tree

23. Questions to Complete