NLN Science - Ecology

Produce own food from Inorganic substances ex: plants

Obtain food by consuming plants or animals (also called 'consumers')

Herbivores

Carnivores that eat Herbivores

Carnivores that eat other carnivores

Autotrophs Heterotrophs Primary Consumers Secondary Consumers Tertiary Consumers

Pathway along which food is transferred

Relationship between many food chains

The entire plortion of our planet inhabited by living things in a variety of ecosystems and communitites

Groups of organisms common to a type of georgraphical area

Desserts Tropical Forests Deciduous Forest Coniferous Forest Tundra

A forest consisting mostly of conifers such as firs, pines and spruces, usually in climates too dry or too cold to support deciduous forest(mountainsides, pine tree habitat)

Forests in which the trees lose their leaves each year (regular forests)

Vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen