A lion killling and eating a gazelle is an example of this type of relationship.
What is predatory/prey?
100
This is the first animal in a food chain; It eats a producer.
What is a primary consumer?
100
This is the term for the change in earth's climate.
What is global warming?
100
When an animal sweats to keep cool, it is exhibiting this process.
What is homeostasis?
100
A factor in an ecosystem that is living. Ex: Plant or animal.
What is a biotic factor?
200
A bird eating the seeds from a flower and then dispersing the seeds through its droppings is an example of this type of relationship.
What is mutualism?
200
Great horned owls and prairie falcons eat field mice that live on grass. This explains the relationship between these organisms.
What are two predators, one herbivore, one producer?
200
These are responsible for much of the climate changes on earth. Released when fossil fuels are burned.
What are carbon dioxide emissions?
200
A streamlined body that reduces friction while swimming would be an example of an adaptation for this type of environment.
What is aquatic?
200
A factor in an ecosystem that is nonliving; Ex- air, temperature, light, water.
What is an abiotic factor?
300
Remora sucker fish can attach themselves to sharks. The shark protects the remora from predators, and the remora has no effect on the shark. This is an example of __________.
What is commensalism?
300
In a food web, one level includes bacteria and fungi. The organisms in this level are called ____________.
What are decomposers?
300
Global warming threatens this; The number and variety of species that live on the Earth.
What is biodiversity?
300
A skeleton to withstand gravity and skin to hold in moisture are adaptations that are for this type of environment.
What is terrestrial?
300
This is the most important abiotic factor in an ecosystem.
What is water?
400
A tapeworm living inside someone's intestines is an example of this type of relationship.
What is parasitism?
400
All plants are producers, and also called this.
What are autotrophs?
400
Pollution threatens our Earth's supply of freshwater. This percentage of the Earth's water supply is freshwater.
What is 3%?
400
When plants are grown in the dark, yet still grow upright, this is as a response to gravity. This response is also know as...
What is gravitropism?
400
This type of water would be found in an ecosystem.
What is brackish water?
500
A deer-ked fly lives on a drinks the blood of a whitetail deer. This is an example of ____________.
What is parasitism?
500
List the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest - Ecosystem, Population, Organism, Community.
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem.
500
These are the three fossil fuels burned for our energy sources.
What are fossil fuels?
500
Hibernation and migration are examples of these.
What is behavioral adaptations?
500
An ecosystem with many plants and decomposers would contain an abundance of this.