Energy Flow
It is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
It is a relationship in which both species involved benefit.
What is mutualism?
Individual living things
What is organism?
These resources cannot be replenished.
What is nonrenewable?
Living
What is biotic?
Give an example of an organism that eats both meat and plant
what is chicken, pig etc..
All the organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
A gazelle is an organism that only eats plants.
What is herbivore?
List 3 characteristics of a living organism
What is a reproduction, use energy, waste, growth/development, homeostasis, adaptation/adjustment, made of cells.
It is a primary consumer, it only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
It is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
It is the smallest unit of life
What is cell?
The process of reclaiming and reusing raw materials
What is recycling?
Nonliving
What is abiotic?
acacia plants and ants relationship
what is mutualism
Organisms that make their own food are referred to as
What is an autotroph or producer?
organisms that obtain their energy from dead organisms.
What is decomposers?
What is the largest level of organization?
What is bioshpere
It is a secondary or tertiary consumer, it eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
It is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is parasitism?
It is a group of organisms of one type in an area
What is the population?
The process of turning organic waste into fertilizer.
What is composting?
Grass, trees, insects are all examples of
What is biotic?
a herbivore occupies what trophic level?
what is secondary level?
Multiple species living together in one area
What is a community?
Are carnivores that feed on prey.
What is predator
_________ can not be create or destroyed.
What is energy?
They can be found on any trophic level, they eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
Mistletoe living on a spruce tree and using it for its food supply is..
What is parasitism?
Organisms of the same kind that are capable of interbreeding with each other?
what is species?
The long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
What is global warming/climate change?
Oxygen and Sunlight are examples of
What is abiotic?
name a movie that brings to life the world of ecology.
what is Lion King
Organisms that eat only meat
What is carnivore?
Interconnected food chains
What is food web?
Biome
What is a large naturally occurring community occupying a major habitat
They receive the least amount of energy in a food chain.
What is a decomposer?
An example is a butterfly feeding on the nectar from a flower while pollinating the flower.
What is mutualism?
This is all the populations together in an ecosystem
What is community?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen found in the atmosphere and depletes the ozone layer.
What are greenhouse gases
Bacteria and Fungi are examples of
What are biotic factors?
Explain the relation between a sea anemone and clown fish
type of mutualistic relationship where the sea anemone provides a home for the fish and in return the fish cleans the tentacles of the sea anemone
Any organism that gets nutrition from outside.
What is a heterotroph?
organisms that depend on each other for survival
What is interdependency
give an example of a specie.
What is jaguar
It is the percent of energy that gets lost at each trophic level.
What is 90%?
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
The definition of Ecology
What is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment
A resource that cannot be replenished.
What is a non-renewable resource?
List three biotic and three abiotic factors
Biotic- grass, animals, tress, insects, bacteria
Abiotic- rock, sun, air, temperature
Give an example of a food chain with 5 trophic level.
grass-grasshopper-bird-snake-eagle
The role an organism occupies in a community.
What is niche?
Rectangular shape that shows the flow of energy in a food chain.
what is energy pyramid
The difference between a food web and food chain
What are interrelationships between organisms: (also biodiversity amongst food choices in a food web)