Ecology

study of living organism as they relate and interact with their environment

feeds n living or recently unliving organisms

detritivores and saprotrophs

feeds on dead organic matter with a muth

feeds on dead organic matter without a mouth

ogranisms that cannot make its own carbon compounds froms simple substances. organisms that obtain organic compounds from other organisms

ogranism that can make its own carbon compounds from simple substances. ogranism that make therir own organic compounds from inorganic substances

herbivore, carbinore, omnivore

ingests/ feeds on dead oragnic matter

has a mouth

does not have mouth

secretes enzumes into its environment to digest dead organic matter

sunlight

chemical

producers

an organism's food level

species that eats autotrophs

species that eats primary heterotroph

they eat the primary and secondary heterotroph

cell/ body activity, heat, respiration, excretion

through producers

no

the total mass of a group of organisms

energy will run out

10%

living

nonliving

compounds that contrain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

compounds that does not have ALL three components. so an example is H20

carbon that is stored long term

any gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, just like the glas walls and ceiling of a greenhouse trap heat inside the struture to cause a warming effect

co2 is dissovled in water, and carbonic acid is formed. the pH level of the ovean has decreased.