Ecosystems and Biodiversity - Lesson 1 (Levels of Organisation in an Ecosystem

All the organisms in a habitat

The living organisms in an area, with the non - living components

A sequences of feeding relationships showing energy movement through trophic levels

A network of food chain

A place where organisms live

The name given to an organism that eats a producer. A herbivore

Plants that begin food chains (e.g plants and algae)

An organism that eats an primary consumer

An organism that eats the secondary consumer

Natural - Oceans, Lakes, and the rainforest Artificial - Fish Farms or Planted Forest

The Total Number of one species in an ecosystem

Producer - An organism that synthesises molecules. (This is normally a green plant that absorbs sunlight to make glucose molecules)

An organism that eats other organisms

Primary and Secondary because they both eat plants and animals

Sun - Energy > Plant - Producer > Grass Hopper - Primary Consumer > Shrew - Secondary Consumer > Tertiary Consumer > Owl

The consumer that kills and eat preys