Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
Deer and elk both eat grass and acorns. What type of relationship is this?
What is a competitive relationship
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called __________ consumers
What is primary?
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
What are commensalism, parasitism, mutualism?
A consumer must do this to other organisms to live
What is "eat"
Makes their own food
What are trees, people, and mushrooms?
Biotic factors. Living things
What might happen if a top predator is destroyed?
Overpopulation in prey causes strain on an ecosystem
A burdock seed sticks to a cat's fur until it falls off in a new location. What type of interaction is this?
What is commensalism?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis
What are plants
An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
The relationship between owls and mice is
Predatorial
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
Bees get food from plants and the plants are pollinated. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is mutualism?
Decomposers provide this for plants
Energy & Nutrients (chemicals that are used for growth/repair/movement/activity)
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring
What is a species
What is a group of the same kinds of living things
What is a population
The arrows in a food web represent _______________
What is energy?
A tick feeds off of the blood of a deer. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is parasitism?
The energy source for ecosystems
A network of food chains by which energy and nutrients are passed on from one living organism to another
What is a food web?
The difference between an ecosystem and a community
An ecosystem includes biotic and abiotic factors, while a community only has biotic factors
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called _____________ consumers.
What is tertiary? sometimes secondary depending on the food chain.
A remora attaches itself to the back of a shark and rides along, saving its energy. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is commensalism?
Where is energy greatest in the food pyramid?
What is at the bottom?