Vocabulary Word
Also known as Autotrophs (can make their own food)
Producers
A bird caught a frog for dinner. What type of relationship is seen between the bird and the frog?
Predator-Prey
It demonstrates how energy is transferred and decreases as it moves through different levels of a food chain or food web.
Energy Pyramid
A ________ is a linear sequence of organisms that shows how energy and nutrients are transferred from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
It starts with a producer (like a plant) and ends with a decomposer (like bacteria).
Food Chain
When did Facebook first launch?
2004
Organisms that eat plants or meat of animals.
Omnivores
Crocodile and Egyptian Bird: Although many people think that the crocodile will eat the bird this is not what actually happens. The crocodile invites the bird to come into its mouth to pick out the scraps. It is an even exchange. The bird gets some food and the crocodile get its teeth clean.
Mutualism
Approximately how many percent of the energy from one level is transferred to the next? Hint: The remaining 90% is used for the organism's life processes or lost as heat.
10%
A ________ is a complex network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
It shows the many ways that energy and nutrients can flow through an ecosystem.
Food Web
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
Organisms that only eat animal-based food.
Carnivores
A man is taking a round worm out of his foot. A round worm is an organism that can not live without a host or person. Round worms can cause abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and many other painful side effects.
Parasitism
Organism that make their own food. They use abiotic factors such as sunlight, air, and water to make their own food.
Producers
It is also known as heterotrophs, are organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms.
Consumers
What is the chemical symbol for water?
H2O
Organisms that eat plants.
Herbivores
It is mating season and these two bears are fighting over the same female bear. What type of symbiotic relationship does this resemble?
Competition
What do you call the herbivores that eat the producers?
Primary Consumers
Examples of these are bacteria and fungi that break down dead organisms and waste, returning nutrients to the ecosystem.
Decomposers
Who was Walt Disney's favorite princess?
Cinderalla
What is an ecosystem, and what are its key components?
An ecosystem is a community of living things (plants, animals, and microorganisms) and their non-living environment (like water, soil, and sunlight) interacting as a unit.
The cattle egret (bird) sits peacefully on this cow. The cow doesn't mind however.The cattle egret (bird)picks and eats flies and other insects off the cow. Identify the type of relationship that is resembled in the picture
Commensalism / Mutualism
What happens to the energy as it moves up the pyramid?
Energy decreases as it moves up the pyramid, with only a small percentage (about 10%) being transferred to the next level.
In this Food Chain, which is the tertiary consumer?
Phytoplankton -> Zooplankton -> Small Fish -> Large Fish -> Seal -> Shark
Large Fish
What is the name of the process where plants make their own food?
Photosynthesis