Feeding relationships keywordsb

• Producer

  Green plant that produces food for the rest of the food chain in photosynthesis
• Consumer

  Organism that eats other organisms
• Herbivore

  Animal that only eats plants
• Omnivore

  Animal that eats plants and meat
• Predator 


  Animal that hunts and eats prey animals
• Apex


  Top or highest part
• Food chain


  Show the flow of energy through an ecosystem
• Insectivorous 


  Animals that eat insects
• Abiotic factors


  Non-living parts of the environment
• Biotic factors


  Any living factor that affects another organism
• Abiotic factors


  • Light intensity
  • Wind
• Biotic factors


  • Competition
• 3 abiotic factors in an ecosystem

  • Light
  • Water
  • Wind
• Difference between abiotic and biotic factors

  Abiotic factors are non-living parts of the environment, biotic factors are any living factor that affects another organism
• Plants need light for photosynthesis, and are producers and support food chains
• Biotic factors


  • Availability of food
  • New predators arriving
  • Diseases (pathogens)
  • Competition from other species for food
• Abiotic factors


  • Light intensity
  • Temperature
  • Moisture levels
  • Soil and pH and mineral content
  • Wind intensity and direction
• Tertiary consumer eats the secondary consumer