Symbiosis
Succession
Trophic/food Web
Graphs
Vocab
100
When a lion kills and eats a zebra.
Predation
100
The first organism to ever inhabit an area.
Pioneer Organism
100
what percentage of energy is passed on going up the trophic pyramid from producer to consumer?
10%
100
When a population within an ecosystem reaches the maximum amount of animals it can handle this is called what?
Carrying Capacity
100
When humans expand cities and overtake an area once inhabitated by animals.
Urbanization
200
When a bee polinates a flower and the bee uses the pollen to make food.
Mutualism
200
During primary succsion, this fungi/single celled organism is usually considered the pioneer of this new land.
Lichen
200
If the producers in the pyramid below have 100 kCal of energy how much energy would the primary carnivore have?
1 kCal
200
What is roughly the carrying capacity of the following population graph?
1.6 or 1.7
200
This type of animal can eat both plants and animals.
omnivore
300
A clown fish uses a sea anemone for protection.
Commensalism
300
What type of succession occurs after some short of catastrophe? Ex. Volcano eruption, hurricane, flood, etc.
Secondary Succession
300
Give an example of a primary consumer.
any herbivore
300
Explain where on the graph does the death rate exceed the birth rate?
Whenever the line is decreasing
300
What is missing from the following list (hint it is in order based on size)
Population, ________, Ecosystem, Biosohere
Community
400
A mosiquito sucks our blood.
Parasitism
400
This type of succession occurs when they land that is succeeding has never had life on it before.
Primary Succession
400
How much energy is lost when you go up the trophic pyramid and give 1 reason why it is lost.
90%
Surviving
400
What is roughly the carrying capacity of the wolf population in the graph below?
between 60-70
400
The amount of different organisms in an area
Biodiversity
500
A cheetah and hyena both hunt gazelle in an area. What is the relationship between the cheetah and hyena.
Bonus 200 Pts: What do we call it when 2 species both fit the same group in a ecosystem?
Competition
Bonus: Niche
500
After hundreds or even thousands or years the biodiversity of the succeeded area has become very vast and strong. We call this pinnacle of succession the what?
Climax Community
500
If the top carnivore has 8.9 kCal of energy how much would the herbivores have?
890 kCal
500
Explain why the rabbit line is higher than the wolf line.
There needs to be more prey than predators so that the predators don't wipe out all of the prey and then everyone starves.
500
The following are all examples of things that living things need to survive
Water, food, space, shelter
We call these things what?
Limiting Factors