Consumer, Producer, or Decomposer?
Ecosystem Terms
Ecology Vocabulary
Food Chains
Food Webs
Practice
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Ecological Relationships
100
Herbivores that eat grass are ______________.
consumers
100
What is an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form called?
Example: One Deer
Organism
100
What is the smallest unit of life?
cell
100
What do we call the path of energy transfer from producers to consumers?
Food Chain
100
What gives producers the energy they need?
The Sun
100
Which organism listed below is a producer?
1. grass
2. rabbit
3. wolf
grass
100
What is something non-living in the environment called?
An Abiotic Factor
100
A tick on a deer is an example of what type of relationship?
Parasitism
200
Organisms that absorb nutrients from dead organic matter are ____________.
decomposers
200
What is a group of individuals belonging to the same species that live in a specific geographic area called?
Example: A Herd of Elk
Population
200
What do we call an organism (plant) that can make its own food from substances that do not come from other living things. They are also called producers.
Autotroph
200
What are the main parts of a simple food chain?
Producer->Primary Consumer ->Secondary Consumer
200
What do we call a model/diagram that shows the feeding relationship among many different organisms?
Food Web
200
Identify the two apex predators.
Lion and Eagle
200
What do the arrows point to in a food web?
the organism that receives the energy
200
The type of symbiotic relationship in which both organism's benefit is called ____________.
Mutualism
300
Plants that make their own food/energy are ____________.
producers
300
What do we call an organism that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
300
What do we call the position or role a species has in an ecosystem?
Niche
300
Herbivores receive energy from ______________.
Producers / Plants / Autotrophs
300
Worms, fungi, and bacteria are all examples of ______________.
decomposers
300
List the three primary consumers.
deer, mouse, grasshopper
300
If something is alive in the community, what is that factor called?
Biotic
300
An alligator and a lion fighting over a food is an example of what type of relationship?
competition
400
___________ make energy for other organisms.
Producers
400
Which organism in this food chain is a herbivore?
Caterpillar
400
What do we call the maximum number of individuals of one species that the environment can support?
Carrying Capacity
400
A third level consumer is also known as an _______ predator.
apex
400
Which herbivore gives its energy to the cheetah?
deer
400
Where does the snake receive its energy?
bird and fox
400
What is an energy pyramid?
a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level
400
What do we call the interaction between two organisms who want the same finite resource?
Competition
500
_____________ obtain energy by eating meat.
Consumers.
500
What do we call all of the living and non-living things in an area?
Ecosystem
500
What symbol do we use to represent the directional flow of energy in a food web?
Arrow
500
What is missing from this food chain?
the plant / producer
500
What do the arrows represent in a food web?
Energy Flow
500
What would happen if the fox population decreased?
The mouse population would increase.
500
How much energy is transferred through each level of the energy pyramid? (What %)?
10%
500
What are the different kinds of symbiosis?
(Symbiosis is the interaction between two organisms.)
Mutualism
Parasitism
Commensalism
Competition
600
Name the 3 main types of consumers.
Carnivore, Omnivore, and Herbivore
600
What do we call a group of all different species of organisms living in a particular area and interacting with each other?
Example: 3 Sheep, 2 Pigs, and a Goat on a Farm
Community
600
Plants make their own food through a process called ________________.
photosynthesis
600
Decomposers receive their energy from ____________.
waste and animal remains
600
Looking at the image and then list all the secondary consumers.
lizard, hawk, rattle snake, and tarantula
600
Grass --> Bird --> Grasshopper --> Hawk
What is wrong with this food chain?
The bird and grasshopper are backwards.
600
What is the main way energy is lost between levels of the energy pyramid?
Heat
600
What do we call the type of symbiotic relationship where only one organism benefits but neither is harmed?
Commensalism
700
Analyze the food chain.
Which organism is a producer?
Grass
700
What do we call the place where an organism lives within an ecosystem?
Example: Beaver Lodge
Habitat
700
An owl eats a mouse.
What ecology vocabulary word describes the mouse?
Prey
700
How does a secondary consumer get their energy?
through eating a primary consumer
700
Use this food web to answer the question.
To which type of ecosystem does the food web belong?
Forest
700
The diagram shows the food web of an aquatic ecosystem.
Which population in the food web will be impacted first by a decrease in the large fish population?
The population of small fish would be impacted first.
700
If you started with 2500 calories of leaves, how many calories would make it to the mouse?
25 calories
700
The relationship between bees and flowers is an example of _____________.
mutualism
800
Name at least one aquatic producer.
Algae and/or Phytoplankton
800
A student observes a diagram of an ecosystem surrounded by land in a textbook, as shown.
How should the student identify the ecosystem based on the community of organisms shown in the diagram?
Pond
800
List four abiotic factors.
Sun
Air
Water
Soil
800
The diagram shows a food chain.
If the wheat plants die, what would happen to the mouse population?
The mouse population would decrease.
800
What would be an appropriate title for the diagram?
* Ecological Succession
* Biological Evolution
* Energy Flow in a Food Web
* A Food Chain
Energy Flow in a Food Web
800
Is a leaf that has already fallen off of a tree biotic or abiotic?
biotic
800
Where is the greatest amount of biomass is located in the energy pyramid?
the base
800
The diagram shows a food web.
Which organisms in the food web obtain energy from the mouse?
hawk and snake