Organizations of Life
The lowest level of environmental organization that three male egrets would all belong in together
What is a population?
A food web shows energy connections better than a food _______.
What is chain?
An organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
Young wasps are eating the tomato hornworm that is their host. This is an example of_________.
What is parasitism?
The study of interactions between living things and their environment
What is ecology?
Word that describes a community of organisms and their environment (living and NON living)
What is ecosystem?
Living things that make their own food from sunlight are ________.
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Two members of the same species fight over how gets a certain food. Members of different species try to take over a certain nesting area. These are both examples of ____.
What is competition?
An environmental study reporting on the way temperature, water quality, and minerals affect the animals in a salt marsh would be considering this level of organization.
What is ecosystem?
Part of Earth where life exist (all ecosystems)
What is biosphere?
A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy.
What is an energy pyramid?
A spider that feeds on live insects is an example of a(n)…
What is predator (also…consumer/carnivore)?
In this type of symbiosis, organisms help each other.
What is mutualism?
Rocks, temperature, and water are considered this.
What are abiotic factors?
A _______________ is several species of animals interacting, while a population is members of one species in an area.
What is a community?
A simple diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
An organism that breaks down organic matter, recycling nutrients back into the environment, e.g., bacteria and fungi.
What are decomposers?
Lions hunting gazelles is an example of this......
What is predation?
The term used to describe a sparrow that has been caught by an eagle.
What is prey?
Five levels of organization in the environment, from the smallest to largest level.
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem and biosphere?
In a food web, arrows point in just one direction because they show how energy goes to the animal…..
that is eating OR that is eaten?
What is the animal THAT IS EATING?
Word that describes ALL the living organisms found at each of the ecological trophic levels
What is biotic?
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
The organisms that feed on dead. Organisms are specifically called___________. A subcategory of this group includes the decomposers.
What are detritivores?