Ecosystem Relationships
What type of relationship benefits both organisms involved?
Answer: What is mutualism?
What is the first organism in a food chain always called?
What is a producer?
What is the term for organisms that make their own food using sunlight?
What are producers?
What term describes animals that only eat meat?
What are carnivores?
What organisms return nutrients to soil and break down dead organisms?
What is Decomposers/Detrivores.
In commensalism, one organism benefits. What happens to the other organism?
What is nothing (it is unaffected)?
What do food webs show that food chains do not?
What is the interconnectedness of multiple organisms?
What type of consumer eats only plants?
What is an herbivore?
True or False: Energy flows in one direction in an ecosystem.
What is True?
What is the name of the process where energy from the sun is converted into food by plants?
What is photosynthesis?
Name an example of parasitism in nature.
What is a tick feeding on a dog?
True or False: Decomposers are part of a food chain.
What is True?
What percentage of energy is typically transferred from one trophic level to the next?
What is 10%?
What terms describes an animal that eats plants and meat?
What is omnivore?
What happens to energy that is not transferred to the next trophic level?
What is it is lost as heat?
What type of relationship occurs when one animal hunts and eats another?
What is predator-prey?
In a simple food chain, name a primary consumer, a secondary consumer, and a tertiary consumer.
What is grasshopper, frog, and snake?
Why are there usually fewer tertiary consumers than primary consumers?
What is because energy decreases as it moves up the trophic levels?
Define the term "niche."
What is the role or job of an organism in its ecosystem?
What is the term for a predator’s role in controlling the size of prey populations?
What is Population Regulation?
Describe one example where mutualism helps an ecosystem thrive.
What is bees pollinating flowers?
Explain why removing a top predator can destabilize a food web.
What is it causes prey populations to grow unchecked, which can affect other trophic levels?
Identify the trophic level of an omnivore that eats both plants and animals.
What is secondary or tertiary consumer (depending on what it eats)?
What does “biotic” mean, and how is it different from “abiotic”?
What is living; abiotic means non-living?
Name one factor that could disrupt an ecosystem’s food web. (one of three).
What is habitat destruction, climate change, or the introduction of invasive species?