https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70 en-us 2018-02-12 17:54:20 UTC 2018-02-12 18:07:37 UTC hello@padlet.com 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230731877 The function or position of a species within an ecological community. A species's niche includes the physical environment to which it has become adapted as well as its role as producer and consumer of food resources.]]> 2018-02-12 17:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230731877 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230732932 An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals for their main food. Pigs are omnivores, so they would be just as happy eating an apple, or the worm inside the apple.]]> 2018-02-12 17:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230732932 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230733438 A group of individuals of the same species occupying a particular geographic area. Populations may be relatively small and closed, as on an island or in a valley, or they may be more diffuse and without a clear boundary between them and a neighboring population of the same species.]]> 2018-02-12 17:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230733438 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230733894 any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food. someone who attacks and plunders for gain. a sexual predator.]]> 2018-02-12 17:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230733894 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230734488 an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.]]> 2018-02-12 18:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230734488 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230734928 We just established that the primary consumer is the living organism that eats the producers, which are the plants.]]> 2018-02-12 18:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230734928 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230735683 Primary succession is one of two types of biological and ecological succession of plant life, occurring in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area left from retreated glacier, is deposited.]]> 2018-02-12 18:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230735683 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230736151 an organism, either a green plant or bacterium, which is part of the first level of a food chain.]]> 2018-02-12 18:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230736151 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230736795 an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse.]]> 2018-02-12 18:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230736795 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230737145 Primary consumers eat these plants exclusively and are all herbivores. We defined secondary consumers as organisms, primarily animals, which eat primary consumers. Furthermore, secondary consumers can be classified into one of two groups: carnivores, or meat eaters, and omnivores, which are plant and meat eaters.]]> 2018-02-12 18:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230737145 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230737686 As opposed to the first, primary succession,secondary succession is a process started by an event]]> 2018-02-12 18:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230737686 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230738113 tertiary consumer. noun, Ecology. a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.tertiary consumer in Science. tertiary consumer.]]> 2018-02-12 18:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230738113 305707 https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230738472 The ratio of total live births to total population in a specified community or area over a specified period of time. The birth rate is often expressed as the number of live births per 1,000 of the population per year.]]> 2018-02-12 18:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/305707/mdsmozn2nv70/wish/230738472