Ecology
Tropic levels
Food Chain
Symbiosis
Vocabulary
100

define ecology 

the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them 

100

What is a trophic level? 

the level or position an organism has in a food chain, food web, or energy pyramid 

100

The name for the levels of a food chain. (2 words)

What is "Trophic levels or energy levels"?

100

What kind of relationship is this?

What is "Mutualism"?

100

Definition of "Biotic".

What is "living organism"?

200

Define biome 

A biome is a grouping of ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic conditions

200

Name a primary consumer from this food web 

grasshopper, mouse, rabbit 

200

Many food chains connect to form this more complex representation of energy transfer among organisms.

What is "A Food Web"?

200

What kind of relationship is this? 

What is "Parasitism"?

200

Definition of "Abiotic".

What is "Nonliving"?

300

shows a sequence that links species by their feeding relationship 

food chains 

300

a plant or animal that eats the dead of all the others 

Decomposers 

300

This organism lies at the bottom of a food chain and can be known as an "Autotroph".

What is "A producer".

300

What kind of relationship is this: a lion hunting a deer? 


What is "predation"?

300

Definition of "ecological relationship".

the interaction between and among organisms with in their environment 

400

what do the arrows show in a food web? 

who eats who/ energy movement 

400

name a secondary consumer on this web. 


frog, bird, owl, fox 

400

Besides Producers these are the other types of organisms in a food chain. They are known as "Heterotrophs".

What are "Consumers"?

400

What kind of relationship is this?

What is "Parasitism"?

400

Definition of  "energy pyramid".

an energy pyramid shows the distribution of energy among trophic levels 

500

list 3 abiotic factors 

air, weather, temp, light, ph, minerals, humidity, soil, salinity 

500

what is energy?

the ability to do work 

500

The percent amount of energy transferred to each organism in a food chain.

What is "10%"?

500

What kind of relationship is this? 

What is "Commensalism"?

500

define the three types of consumers 

herbivore- eats only plants 

carnivore- eats only meat 

omnivore- eats both plants and animals 

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