Fish & Cetaceans
What's for Dinner
The Great Pyramid
Ecosystem
Vocabulary
100

What of the following is not an Abiotic Factor?

Shark

Sunlight

Water Temperature

Rocks

What is Shark

100

A food chain uses arrows to show the energy transferred. What is the main original source of energy in the food chain?

The Sun

100

Which of the following is considered a Consumer?

zooplankton

grass

soil

phytoplankton

 What is zooplankton

100

Cells, Tissue, Organ, and Organ system makes up a what?

What is an Organism

100

What is a Scavenger

An organism that eat the remains of dead creatures

200

All these describe cetaceans except:

A. Rubber Skin

B. Blowhole

C.Live Birth

D. Scales

What is Scales

200

Lichen is a symbiotic relationship between fungus and algae.

Fungus provide nutrients to Algae and Algae provides food to Fungus. They both benefit from one another.

Which symbiotic relationship represents that?

What is Mutualism 

200

According to the food chain, the grasshopper eats the plants for nutrients. What is the grasshopper called where it only eat plants

What is a herbivore

200

Complete the Phrase:

Cell to Tissue: Population to: _________

What is Community

200

What is a dichotomous key?

 What is A pair of descriptors to identify organisms

300
Cetaceans and fish both use fins to maneuver through their environment. Fish are ectothermic and cetaceans are endothermic. What does endothermic mean?


Cold-blooded or Warm- blooded

What is Warm- Blooded

300

A decomposer and scavenger both play an important role in maintaining equilibrium within an ecosystem.  Which animal below would be considered a decomposer?

Goat,  Fish,  Crab,  Shark ,  Mushroom


What is a Mushroom

300

Using the 10% energy rule and food chain below. Calculate the number of pounds a large fish required to support 1 pound of orca.

Phytoplankton (10,000)--small fish--large fish --Dolphin --Orca

What is 100 pounds

300

Phytoplankton is an essential organism of the ocean. It produces about 70% of oxygen. It receives energy from the sun to help create its food through photosynthesis.  What would Phytoplankton be considered as.

A Consumer

A Producer

A Parasite 

What is a Producer

300

What is the Energy Pyramid?

What is the amount of energy that moves from one level to another in a food chain

400

When comparing fish and cetaceans they have many things that are similar such as both being Heterotrophic. What does that mean to be Heterotrophic?

Meaning they must eat other organisms 

400

Symbiosis is ecological relationship between organisms of two different species. Which Symbiosis means both species will benefit?

Mutualism

Commensalism

Parasitism

What is Mutualism

400

Based off the Food Chain Web, What animal does the hawk and snake both prey on?

What is a mouse

400

All abiotic and biotic factors interacting within a certain area make up this

What is an Ecosystem

400

What is an Ecosystem?

What is  an environment which contains organisms interacting with each other and with abiotic factors

500

What is the difference between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic?

Prokaryotic has no nucleus 

Eukaryotic has a nucleus 

500

Which substance is necessary for photosynthesis to occur in producers?

What is Chlorophyll 

500

How many pounds of large fish will it take to support an 300 pound whale?

(Phytoplankton- small fish- large fish- dolphin- whale)

What is 30,000

500

What is the organization order of the Ecosystem starting with organism.

What is Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem

500

What is Biodiversity?

What is a complete range of species and ecosystem in nature.

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