The depths of the ocean to the heights of the air is the biosphere of an ecosystem?
What is the biosphere?
100
Grass is an example of a consumer, producer, or decomposer?
What is a producer?
100
In which type of symbiosis do organisms help each other? Parasitism or mutualism?
What is mutualism?
100
The environment includes ________________ factors including water, rocks, and light.
What is abiotic factors?
200
Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of the environment? Biotic or abiotic?
What is abiotic?
200
What is the lowest level of environmental organization that three male egrets would all belong in together?
What is population?
200
The term used to describe a sparrow that has been caught by an eagle is prey or predator?
What is prey?
200
A tick sucks blood from a dog. In this relationship, the tick is the ___________ and the dog is the ___________.
What is the parasite and the host?
300
What do several populations living together make? Community or an ecosystem?
What is a community?
300
A triangular diagram that shows how energy is lost as animals eat other living things is called a?
What is an energy pyramid?
300
Two members of the same species fight over who gets a certain food. Members of different species try to take over a certain nesting area. These are both examples of mutualism or competition?
What is competition?
300
The environment includes ___________, or living, factors.
What is biotic factors?
400
If scientists are studying the egrets, herons, marsh crabs, and cord-grass, but not the water or rocks in a salt marsh, what level of organization would they be studying? An ecosystem or community?
What is a community?
400
A diagram with arrows showing energy flow from grass, to a rabbit, to a fox, is a food chain, food web, or an energy pyramid?
What is a food chain?
400
When is food a limiting factor? When a population is large or when a population is small?
What is when a population is large?
400
Nature's recyclers are ____________________.
What is decomposers?
500
An environmental study reporting on the way temperature, water quality, and minerals effect the animals in a salt marsh would be considering which level of organization? An ecosystem or a community?
What is an ecosystem?
500
In a food web, the arrows point in just one direction because they show how energy is going to the animal that is eating or how energy is going to the animal that was eaten?
What is how energy is going to the animal that is eating?
500
In which relationship do living things help each other?
What is mutualism?
500
A community of organisms and their environment is called a(n) ecosystem or a population?