Food Webs & Energy Flow
Nutrition
Relationships in an Ecosystem
Classifying Organisms
Labs & Activities
100
An animal that eats both other animals and plants.
What is an omnivore?
100
The three macronutrients/macromolecules
What are carbohydrates, lipids/fats, and proteins?
100
A relationship between two organisms where one consumes the other.
What is predation?
100
The most specific classification group, below genus.
What is species?
100
The scientific name for a prediction about an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Another name for a tertiary consumer.
What is an apex predator?
200
During photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide and water to make this energy source.
What is glucose?
200
Name of the organism in/on which a parasite lives.
What is the host?
200
A visual tool for classifying organisms.
What is a dichotomous key?
200
What yeast needs to ferment.
What is sugar/glucose?
300
The primary consumer in each food chain.
What are the mouse, the rabbit, and the grasshopper?
300
This macronutrient is broken down into amino acids.
What is protein?
300
Name for all non-living things within an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factors?
300
An organism with cells that do not have a nucleus.
What is a prokaryote?
300
the variable we manipulate.
What is the independent variable?
400
The percentage of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%
400
Chemical digestion takes place in this organ for carbohydrates and lipids.
What is the small intestine?
400
The type of mutualism where the species would die without one another.
What is obligate mutualism?
400
Name for an organism that can synthesize (create) its own food.
What is an autotroph?
400
Type of pollution that we modeled which kills aquatic wildlife and birds.
What is an oil spill?
500
The general name for a place on Earth where carbon is stored.
What is a reservoir?
500
The main enzyme that digests carbohydrates.
What is amylase?
500
The type of competition where the population of one prey species affects the population of another prey species.
What is apparent competition?
500
The six kingdoms of organisms.
What are animal, plant, fungi, protist, archaea, and eubacteria?
500
The maximum population an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?