Energy Transfer
All food chains and food webs begin with these organism types.
What are producers?
A lion eating a gazelle.
What is predation?
An organism that makes its own food
What is a producer?
This species has no known predators in an ecosystem and is at the top of the food web.
What is an apex predator?
Fill in the blank:
Organism -> _____ -> Community -> Ecosystem -> Biosphere
What is population?
From the food chain:
leaf --> caterpillar --> frog --> snake --> hawk
It is the secondary consumer.
What is frog?
What is parasitism?
A consumer that only eats other consumers?
What is a carnivore?
This species has know specific role, but their population helps ecologists determine the health of an ecosystem.
What are bioindicators?
These are non-living factors in an ecosystem?
What are abiotic factors?
The amount of energy transferred between trophic levels
What is 10%?
A bee helping a flower pollinate while a flower provides food for the bee.
What is mutualism?
What is an omnivore?
This species, like the beaver, has many important roles that help keep the ecosystem healthy and thriving.
What is a keystone species?
These are permanent genetic changes to an population over time.
What are adaptations?
Each step in the transfer of energy...producers are always 1.
What is a trophic level?
What is compeitition?
What is a decomposer?
This species, like the spotted lanternfly in NJ, is not native to the area but is now a nuisance and has taken over the ecosystem
What is an invasive species?
A volcano erupting would begin the process of primary succession. What species would you expect to show up first?
What are lichen?
All energy is produced by this large nonliving thing
What is the sun?
A hermit crab uses the discarded shell of a snail for its home.
What is commensalism?
A consumer that feasts on the carcasses of dead things, a scavenger?
What is a detritivore?
This type of keystone species helps to rebuild, reshape and restore ecosystems.
What is an ecosystem engineer?
A beaver's role in an ecosystem is to build dams. Any organisms role is know as this.
What is its niche?