Symbiosis
Food Chain/Web
Consumers/Producers
Random
Random
100
When both organisms benefit
Mutualism
100
These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
Producers/autotrophs
100
One individual
organism
100
living things in an environment
biotic
100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
habitat
200
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Commensalism
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
Primary
200
eating other organisms is also called being a
consumer
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
Prey
200
Non-living factors in a community are called..
abiotic
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
parasitism
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
tertiary
300
What are the two secondary consumers?
snake and frog
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
scavenger
300
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
Host
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
Predication
400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
energy pyramid
400
What would occur to the population of the secondary consumer if the tertiary consumer decreased?
their population would increase
400
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
ecology
400
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
decomposer
500
Two or more organisms competing for the same resource.
competition
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
90%
500
what is the photosynthesis formula?
6CO2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
food chain
500
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area.
ecosystem