Shennell

Chapter Five Notes

Specie is a group of organisms that can interbreed Their habitat is all the abiotic and biotic factors that the species live in A population is all the organisms in a species that live in the same habitat at the same time A community is a group of populations that live in the same area at the same time An ecosystem is a community and all its abiotic factors Ecology is the study of how organisms interact An environment is everything that surrounds an organism The four main components are: the hydrosphere - water the atmosphere - gases the lithosphere - rocks the biosphere - all organisms Also the abiotic and biotic factors abiotic ( nonliving): heat light and minerals biotic : (living): plants, animals, and bacteria autotrophs are producers that make their own food. Examples include algae, trees, and grass. Heterotrophs are consumers that eat producers: fish, sheep and insects Detritvores eat wastes and saprotrophs live on non-living matter. Food chains are sequences that show the feeding relationships between species. Food webs are multiple food chains and cannot depict energy flows. Trophic levels are various positions in a food chain. T1 - producers t2 - primary consumer t3- secondary consumers t4 - tertiary consumers t5 - quaternary consumers