Web of Food
This is the first animal in a food chain; It eats a producer.
What is a primary consumer
factor in an ecosystem that is living. Ex: Plant or animal.
What is a biotic factor?
A close relationship between two species that benefit at least one on the species?
What is symbiosis
All the different populations that live together are called?
What is community
The feeding relationships from one organism to another in an ecosystem?
What is food chain
In a food web, one level includes bacteria and fungi. The organisms in this level are called
What are decomposers?
A factor in an ecosystem that is nonliving; Ex- air, temperature, light, water.
What is an abiotic factor?
A bird eating the seeds from a flower and then dispersing the seeds through its droppings is an example of this type of relationship.
What is mutualism?
The place where an organism lives that provides the things it needs?
What is habitat
The Biotic and abiotic factors that interact within an area?
What is ecosystem
List the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest - Ecosystem, Population, Organism, Community.
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem.
This is the most important abiotic factor in an ecosystem.
What is water?
Remora sucker fish can attach themselves to sharks. The shark protects the remora from predators, and the remora has no effect on the shark. This is an example of __________.
What is commensalism?
The combined portions of Earth where all living things exist is called the?
What is biosphere
An organism that eats producers
What is a primary consumer
All of the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem make up a?
What is food web
In a food pyramid with level has the most available energy?
What is producers
A tapeworm living inside someone's intestines is an example of this type of relationship.
What is parasitism?
I eat a mouse that eats grass, so I am a _____________ _______consumer.
What is secondary consumer
An organism that eats primary consumers
What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a food web?
What is trophic level
All biotic things contain this "building block"?
What is carbon
A lion killing and eating a gazelle is an example of this type of relationship.
What is predatory/prey
Maximum level of organisms that ecosystem can support?
What is carrying capacity