Plants vs Animals
Version 2
Version 2
Food Chains and
Food webs
Food webs
Ecosystems and its parts
Animal Relationships
Random
100
These two words refer to any and all organisms that make their own food.
What are Producers?/What are autotrophs?
100
This type of consumer primarily eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
100
All of the living organisms in an area, as well as all of the non-living portion of the environment they interact with.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Any close relationship between species.
What is symbiosis?
100
This is the ultimate energy source fueling nearly all food webs.
What is the sun?
200
These two words refer to any and all organisms that do not make their own food.
What are consumers?/What are heterotrophs
200
This type of consumer eats primarily secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
200
This factor of the environment includes all the non-living parts of the ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
200
This type of symbiotic relationship shows one organism benefiting from the relationship and the other being unaffected.
What is commensalism?
200
This organism is a pioneer species in ecological succession.
What is a lichen?
300
This molecule, represented by this equation, is the primary food source for producers. (C6H12O6)
What is glucose?
300
This organism is often missing from food webs, but plays an important role in the recycling of materials in the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
300
This part of the ecosystem is where an organisms lives.
What is a habitat?
300
In this type of symbiotic relationship, both organisms directly benefit.
What is mutualism?
300
This organism is described as being at the "Top" of the food web, and holds this level of consumer.
What is the hawk, a quaternary(4th level) consumer?
400
This is the term that describes a consumer that only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
400
The frog in this food web represents this type of consumer. 
What is a secondary consumer?
400
This factor of the environment includes all living parts of the ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
400
In this type of symbiotic relationship, one organism benefits, and the other organism is harmed.
What is parasitism?
400
Animals which lay eggs tend to use decaying plant material to keep the eggs warm. This is the reason why.
What is heat produced via decomposition?
500
This is the term that describes consumers that eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
500
These creatures would be directly affected by the loss of the mouse in the food web.
What is the fox, owl and hawk?
500
All of the organisms have this relationship, since they must share resources such as water, food and shelter. 
What is competition?
500
The bird and the snake share this type of relationship. 
What is predator/prey relationship?
500
During the process of decomposition, the mass of a pile of decaying plant matter decreases over time. It loses this mass to these two natural cycles in the ecosystem.
What are the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle?