Vocabulary
Energy Pyramids
Food Chains/Food Webs
Symbiotic Relationships
100
All living factors in an ecosystem.
Biotic Factors
100
What organism(s) in the food web contain the most amount of energy from the sun?
Grasses, shrubs
100
What do the arrows in a food chain or food web represent?
Arrows represent how the energy is being transferred (who is eating who)
100
A symbiotic relationship that involves species having to fight for something they both need or want
competition
200
All of the living things interacting with the nonliving aspects of the environment.
An ecosystem
200
In an energy pyramid, what is the proper name for ANY organism above the producer level?
Consumer
200
Name a predator-prey relationship
coyote - rabbit; spider - insect; hawks - seed eating birds
200
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the detriment of the spruce. What kind of relationship is this?
Parasitism
300
A place where a plant or animal lives
Habitat
300
What might happen if you remove a primary consumer from the ecosystem?
The number of plants would increase.
300
How is a food chain different than a food web?
(Answers may vary)
Example response: A food web contains many food chains.
300
When a mosquito bites you, you are the ___________ and the mosquito is the _____________ .
Host; Parasite
400
Interacting populations of various kinds of as species in a common location.
Community
400
Only 10% of the energy available at each trophic level moves on to the next level. 90% is used by the organism or dissipated as _______________. (this is a form of energy)
heat
400
What might happen to the rabbit, insect, and seed-eating birds if grasses and shrubs were removed from the ecosystem?
The Herbivore populations would decrease.
400
Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on a impala. This is an example of what type of relationship?
Mutualism