Ecosystems
Ecological Relationships
Food Webs/Energy Pyramids
Graphs
Other Vocab
100
All of the non-living things in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
100
When both organisms benefit from the other.
What is mutualism?
100
Organisms that use the sun's energy to make their food.
What are producers?
100
The approximate largest population that species 1 reached.
What is 175,000 organisms?
100
Organisms that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
200
A group of organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
200
The relationship where one animal hunts and eats another animal of a different species.
What is predator/prey?
200
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain?
200
The year that species 2 reached their carrying capacity.
What is year 7?
200
Carnivores that feed on dead organisms.
What are scavengers?
300
The largest number of individuals an area can support.
What is carrying capacity?
300
When one organism benefits while the other is being harmed.
What is parasitism?
300
The organisms that eat a mouse.
What are foxes, owls, and hawks?
300
The symbiotic relationship most likely represented by this graph.
What is mutualism?
300
Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
400
The two major events that will cause a population to decrease.
What is death and emigration?
400
When one organism benefits and the other is neither benefited or harmed.
What is commensalism?
400
The trophic level of snails in this energy pyramid.
What is primary consumer?
400
The carrying capacity of both species in the graph.
What is 40,000 organisms?
400
Multiple populations of organisms of different species.
What are communities?
500
The number of individuals in an area of a specific size.
What is population density?
500
A close and long-term biological interaction between two different species.
What is symbiosis?
500
The trophic level that eats secondary consumers.
What are tertiary consumers?
500
The symbiotic relationship most likely represented by this graph.
What is parasitism?
500
Abiotic and biotic parts of an ecosystem that cause a population to stop growing or decrease.
What are limiting factors?