Food Chains
Food chains show _________________
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The arrows in the food web represent ______?
Energy
The relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is Mutualism?
When two different species both rely on the same food source, their relationship is called ________
What is Competition?
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What type of consumer eats producers?
What is...a primary consumer/herbivore?
True or false
A food chain is many food webs put together
False
The relationship where one organism benfits and the other organism is harmed.
What is... Parasitism?
An interaction when an organism kills and eats another.
What is Predation?
The independent variable is the one that _______
The scientist changes directly
Describe which way the arrow in a food chain would point if a lion is eating a gazelle.
What is...going from the gazelle to the lion?
Mussels eat algae, this means they are part of which trophic level?
What is...primary consumer
The relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is not hurt or helped.
What is...Commensalism?
The name of the organism that is killed to be eaten?
What is Prey?
Name three subatomic particles found in most atoms AND their charges.
What are...protons (positive), electrons (negative), and neutrons (no charge)?
A _______ consumer eats primary consumers.
What is a...secondary consumer?
An organism with no natural predators is called a ________ __________.
What is a...top predator/apex predator?
Tree frogs using the Kapok tree as protection is an example of what type of symbiosis?
What is...commensalism?
The type of competition that occurs between organisms of different species.
What is...Interspecific competition?
Identify the independent, depenedent, and control variable:
There are four tanks all with the same amount of water. One has 3 mussels, one has 2 mussels, one has 1 mussel and one has 0 mussels. The turbidity is measured daily
IV- number of mussels
DV- turbidity
CV- amount of water
Give the name of three different consumers that live IN THE OCEAN.
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Give the name of two specific producers- one that lives on land and one that lives in water
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A bee pollinating flowers is an example of what?
What is...mutualism
The type of competition that occurs between organisms of the same species.
What is...Intraspecific competition?
This type of observation describes objects using your five senses.
What is a...qualitative observation