Symbiosis
Succession
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Food Webs
General Knowledge
100
What is Symbiosis?
Relationships between organisms that live in the same area.
100
This type of Succession begins from bare rock.
Examples are: after a volcanic eruption or when a glacier retreats.
What is Primary Succession?
100
The trophic group that makes its own food and has the most biomass (the bottom of the energy pyramid).
What are producers? (Plants)
100
Animals that eat the producers and other creatures.
What are consumers?
100
This group is usually made up of bacteria.
What is a decomposer?
200
Give an example of a parasitic relationship.
Ticks, tapeworms, beetle on plants, etc.
200
Lichen and Moses arrive first.
What is a Primary Succession?
200
Creatures in higher trophic levels receive this amount of energy from the previous trophic level.
What is 10%?
200
Name both a Secondary and Tierary Consumer.
What are the Owl, Fox, and Couger
200
Unlike Energy in a food chain or food web Toxins do this as you move up the trophic levels.
What is increasing?
300
What is a mutualistic relationship?
When both organisms benefit from the relationship.
300
Because After a forest fire, avalanche, or hurricane existing soil and surviving seeds are already present.
Why is Secondary Succession faster than Primary Succession?
300
Plants.
What are Producers?
300
In a food web Energy is ______ as the trophic levels go up.
What is decreasing?
300
Given this example:
1PPM
1PPB
1PPT
The one with the highest toxin level
What is 1PPM? ( 1 part per million)
400
Barnacles living on the sides of whales an example.
What is commensalism
400
Which type of Succession results in a Climax Community?
What are Primary and Secondary Succession?
400
The amount, %, of energy lost to the environment in the form of heat.
What is 90%?
400
In this example, the Snake is:
Grass =>Lady bug => Bluejay => Snake => Hawk
What is the Tierary Consumer?
400
This group receives the least energy in the energy pyramid.
What is the Top predator? (Can be Tierary or Quaternary).
500
Ants and Aphids are one example.
What is Mutualism?
500
A corn field left fallow.
What is secondary succession?
500
This group performs Nitrogen Fixation (return nutrients to the soil).
What are decomposers?
500
The types of consumers.
What are omnivores, carnivores, herbivores, and decomposers?
500
The name for the increase in toxins in a Food Web.
What is Biomagnification?