Vocabulary
Levels
Trophic Levels
Food Webs
Symbiosis
100

What makes its own food?

What are Producers/Autotrophs

100

What is the biggest level of organization? (Everything from bottom of the ocean to the atmosphere)

Biosphere

100

What is one trophic level?

Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, decomposer

100

What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?

Web= many directions

Chain= 1 direction

100

The three symbiotic relationships

What are commensalism, parasitism and mutualism?

200

Species must share limited resources. What resources?

Food, shelter, space

200

How Do Prey Species Avoid Predators? give three examples

•Run, swim, or fly fast

•Highly developed sight, hearing, or smell

•Physical protection: shells, spines

•Camouflage: shapes and colors

•Chemical defenses: poisons, irritating (stinging), foul-smelling or bad tasting (can be poisonous)

–Warning coloration

•Behavior: mimicry, grouping together

200

What trophic level does a tree belong to?

Producer

200

What do food webs show?

What eats what, the path of matter/energy

200

Type of symbiosis: cheetah hunting a gazelle

Predation

300

What is the difference between herbivores and carnivores?

Herbivores: Eat plants

Carnivores: Eat meat/animals

300

What is a group of the same species?

Population

300

What trophic level would an elephant belong to?


Primary Consumer (eats plants)

300

Who do the arrows in a food web/chain point to?

The eater

300

Type of symbiosis: many species use the same water holes in africa

Competition

400
what type of competition would Two chicken fighting for one worm be?

Intraspecific Competition

400

What is a type of place?

Biome

400

What level would a venus flytrap belong to?

Either producer (does photosynthesis) or secondary consumer (low-level predator)

400

The ________ feed on the corpses and carcasses of dead animals and plants, breaking down tissues so ________ can return all energy to the cycle to circulate it again

What are scavengers and decomposers?

400

Type of symbiosis:

Oxpeckers eating bugs on a giraffe

Mutualism

Oxpecker: gets food
Giraffe: less bugs

500

What is resource partitioning?

shared resources at different times, in different ways, or in different places.

500

What is a specific place and its organisms?

Ecosystem

500

What level would a mushroom belong to?

Decomposer (breaks down dead matter)

500

What is wrong with this diagram?

-Arrows the wrong way

-Shows a web, not a chain

500

Type of symbiosis:

Poison dart frog living in a plant

Commensalism

frog: place to hide/live

Plant: nothing

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