Food Webs/Chains
How much available energy is transferred to the next trophic level of a food chain?
What is 10%?
An animal that eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
A hawk is a tertiary consumer and a rabbit is a primary consumer. Which would you expect to see more of in an ecosystem?
What is a rabbit?
A relationship where both organisms benefit, is it: commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, predation, competition?
What is mutualism?
If a plant has 100 kcals of energy stored in it how much energy would the secondary consumer get?
What is 1%?
What is an animal that eats only plants?
What is a herbivore?
An organism that is introduced to a ecosystem that is does not normally live in is called an.....
What is an invasive species?
A relationship where both organisms are harmed, is it: commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, predation, competition?
What is competition?
If a plant has 100% of energy stored in it how much energy would the tertiary consumer get?
What is 0.1%
What is an animal that eats both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
An organism that has a large impact in its ecosystem despite having a small population is called a....
What is a keystone species?
A relationship where one organisms benefits and the other is unaffected, is it: commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, predation, competition?
What is commensalism?
Which organism in a food chain is the most affected by biomagnification: Producers, primary, secondary, or tertiary consumer?
What is a tertiary consumer?
Name a way organisms lose energy
What is living life or heat
Why are keystone species important?
They keep their prey populations in check (prevent all producers from being eaten)
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed, is it: commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, predation, competition?
What is parasitism?
The build up of toxins through a food chain is called this
Biomagnification
Invasive species grow very rapidly because they do not have any of these in their new habitat
What is no natural predators?
Why are invasive species bad for an ecosystem?
They outcompete native species for resources
A relationship where one organism eats the other organisms, is it: commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, predation, competition?
What is predation?