Symbiosis
What is Symbiosis?
Relationships between organisms that live in the same area.
What is Ecology?
Ecology is a branch of science that studies the relationship between living organisms and their surroundings.
What is a producer?
Producers are living things that create their own food.
What is the difference between primary and secondary consumers?
The difference is primary consumers are herbivores and secondary consumers are carnivores.
These are the two most common types of decomposers found in an ecosystem.
What are fungi and bacteria.
Give an example of a parasitic relationship.
Ticks, tapeworms, beetle on plants, etc.
This term describes all the living organisms and their non-living environment interacting in a specific area.
What is an ecosystem.
Are plants the ONLY producers, true or false?
False, some bacteria can also be producers.
What are 3 types of consumers?
Types of consumers are omnivores, carnivores, herbivores and decomposers.
What do decomposers do?
Decomposers eat dead plants and animals and turn them into chemical nutrients.
What is a mutualistic relationship?
When both organisms benefit from the relationship.
All the non-living parts of an ecosystem, such as sunlight, soil, and water.
What are abiotic factors.
Are producers plants?
Yes, producers can be plants.
This term describes a consumer that hunts and eats other animals, sitting at the top of a food chain.
What is an apex predator.
Where do decomposers live?
Decomposers usually live on the top layer of the soil.
Barnacles living on the sides of whales is an example of commensalism. True/False
True
What do you call a scientist that studies ecology?
You would call them a ecologist.
How do producers grow?
Producers grow by a process called photosynthesis.
The answer is both.
Can insects be decomposers, true or false?
Yes, insects can be decomposers.
What kind of relationship would clown fish and sea anemone be?
Mutualism
What is the main purpose of ecology?
The main purpose of ecology is to understand the relationship between living organisms and where they're living.
Do producers and photosynthesis work together?
Yes, photosynthesis gives the producers the food and energy it needs.
When a consumer eats another organism, this is the percentage of energy that gets passed up to the next level.
What is 10%
How do decomposers help the ecosystem?
Decomposers help the ecosystem by eating the dead plants and animals and they keep track of the flow of nutrients.