Food chains: All animals get their food from plants. Animals depend on food for energy. The plant produces its energy from the sun, the rabbit eats the plants, and the fox feeds on the rabbit. This is an example of a food chain. Food is a form of stored energy.
Producers: The plant is a primary producer.
Consumers: the rabbit is a primary consumer; the weasel and the fox can be either secondary or tertiary consumers.
Food web: refers to the combination of food chains that connect all the organisms in an ecosystem.
Ecosystems: A community of organisms and the physical environment where they live including the factors that make life possible.
Habitat: the geographical location where a species lives and that meets all its ecological needs.
Population: The number of different species in a community.
Community: the group of species that live in and share a habitat.
Connections: Relationships in nature.
Cycles in nature: Periodic events that occur time after time.
Disturbing the cycles: Not allowing the events of a cycle to take place as they normally would.
Breaking connections: When two organisms that needed each other cannot come into contact any longer.
Ecological Impact from humans – foresting, agriculture, farming, and urban sprawl are examples of ecological impact of humans.
