Eating Food
Food Chain/Web
Populations
Relationships
Vocab Stuff
100
Consumers that eat both plants and animals are called...
What is omnivores
100
Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up a(n)...
What is food web
100
What is a population?
What is all the number of a certain species that lives in an area.
100
An organism's particular role in its habitat, or how it makes its living, is called its...
What is niche.
100
The non-living parts of the ecosystem are called...
What is abiotic factors
200
An organism that can make its own food is called a(n)...
What is producer or autotroph. Plants are not the only producers on the planet, some bacteria and algae are also producers. Not all producers photosynthesize, some are able to use certain chemicals in their surroundings and chemosynthesize.
200
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web is called a...
What is energy pyramid.
200
The largest population that an environment can support is called its...
What is carrying capacity.
200
A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species is called...
What is symbiosis.
200
What is predation?
What is an interaction between two organisms in which one organism hunts/kills and eats the other.
300
Vultures and other animals that feed on the bodies of dead organisms are a special kind of consumer called a....
What is scavenger.
300
The first organism in a food chain is always a...
What is producer.
300
All the biotic and abiotic factors in an area make up the...
What is ecosystem.
300
The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources is called...
What is competition.
300
The study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment is called...
What is ecology
400
Animals that eat plants are called __________, while animals that eat other animals are called _________.
What is herbivore and carnivore.
400
In an energy pyramid, which level has the most available energy?
What is 1st level or producer level.
400
Anything that prevents further growth to a population, such as limited food, disease, and predation, is known as a...
What is limiting factor.
400
A wildebeest digs up the ground as it grazes for food, uncovering worms and insects. Birds swoop in and eat the insects. The birds benefit the wildebeest is unaffected. This type of symbiotic relationship is called...
What is commensalism.
400
Counting the number of organisms in a small area and multiplying to estimate the number in a larger area is a type of population estimating called...
What is sampling
500
What do we call organisms that break down the remains of other organisms.
What is decomposers
500
The energy role of humans is that of ___________ because we cannot make our own food.
What is consumer or heterotroph.
500
All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n)...
What is community.
500
What type of symbiotic relationship results when both organisms benefit?
What is mutualism.
500
When members of a group leave their population.
What is emigration. Immigration is when members move into a population.
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