Energy Flow
It is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
It is a relationship in which both species involved benefit.
What is mutualism?
Individual living things
What is organism?
These resources cannot be replenished.
What is nonrenewable?
Living
What is biotic?
All the organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
List 3 characteristics of a living organism
What is a reproduction, use energy, waste, growth/development, homeostasis, adaptation/adjustment, made of cells.
It is a primary consumer, it only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
It is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
It is the smallest unit of life
What is cell?
The process of reclaiming and reusing raw materials
What is recycling?
Nonliving
What is abiotic?
Organisms that make their own food are referred to as
What is an autotroph or producer?
What is the largest level of organization?
What is bioshpere
It is a secondary or tertiary consumer, it eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
It is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is parasitism?
It is a group of organisms of one type in an area
What is the population?
The process of turning organic waste into fertilizer.
What is composting?
Grass, trees, insects are all examples of
What is biotic?
Multiple species living together in one area
What is a community?
_________ can not be create or destroyed.
What is energy?
They can be found on any trophic level, they eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
Mistletoe living on a spruce tree and using it for its food supply is..
What is parasitism?
If two organisms are in competition for the same resource what will eventually happen?
One population will die off OR both population sizes will decrease in order to coexist
The long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
What is global warming/climate change?
Oxygen and Sunlight are examples of
What is abiotic?
Any organism that gets nutrition from outside.
What is a heterotroph?
Biome
What is a large naturally occurring community occupying a major habitat
They receive the least amount of energy in a food chain.
What is a decomposer?
An example is a butterfly feeding on the nectar from a flower while pollinating the flower.
What is mutualism?
This is all the populations together in an ecosystem
What is community?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and water are three of these.
What are greenhouse gases
Bacteria and Fungi are examples of
What are biotic factors?
A community interacting with abiotic factors
What is the Ecosystem?
The difference between a food web and food chain
What are interrelationships between organisms: (also biodiversity amongst food choices in a food web)
It is the percent of energy that gets lost at each trophic level.
What is 90%?
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
The definition of Ecology
What is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment
A resource that cannot be replenished.
What is a non-renewable resource?
List three biotic and three abiotic factors
Biotic- grass, animals, tress, insects, bacteria
Abiotic- rock, sun, air, temperature
A linear network of links starting with a producer and ending at apex predator or decomposer?
What is the Food Chain?
A volcano erupts and destroys the surrounding area, what succession follows?
What is the primary succession?