Symbiotic Relationships
Close relationship between species that benefits at least one
What is Symbiosis?
This is the ultimate source of energy
What is the Sun?
A consumer that eats only plants
What is an herbivore?
These are the non-living things in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
The food pyramid shows this at the bottom level.
What are producers?
Interdependent relationship where both species benefit
What is Mutualism?
This is the precent of energy loss as you go up the energy pyramid
What is 10%?
This is a consumer that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
These are the living things in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
Organisms that obtain energy from feeding on other organisms.
What are consumers?
This is the study of the environment
What is Ecology?
The arrow shows this in a food web
What is the flow of energy?
Decaying organic material in soils.
What is humus?
This describes the organisms in a particular ecosystem found in interconnecting food chains using pictures or words and arrows.
What is a food web?
Organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
Relationship where one species benefits and other is neither helped or harmed
What is Commensalism?
Arrows in a food web point towards this.
What is who is eating it?
This organism eats only herbivores (type of consumer).
What is secondary consumer?
Two populations with limited resources tend to have this.
What is competition?
Bacteria in your stomach that helps digest food is an example of this symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
A tick feeds on a deer in this relationship.
What is Parasitism?
This shows energy moving from bottom to top.
What is energy pyramid?
Soils form in layers
What are horizons?
Parasitism, Mutualism, and Commensalism are all examples of this.
What are symbiotic relatioships?
Refers to the role an organism has in its environment, including the type of food it eats, how it obtains its food and how it interacts with other organisms.
What is a niche?