Definitions
Community Interactions
Food Web Scenarios
Characteristics of Life
100

Producer

Organism that creates its own food and energy

100

Predation

Examples 

cheetah hunting gazelle

bear hunting salmon

100

Identify the secondary consumer: 

grass -> rabbit -> snake -> hawk

snake

100
Life needs this liquid substance

Water

200

Abiotic factor

Non-living components in an ecosystem

200

Competition

When organisms fight for common resources in an ecosystem 


Plants competing for water and light

lions and cheetahs hunting similar prey

200

What do the arrows represent in a food web/chain?

Flow of energy

200

Life must be able to obtain, use and store energy

Energy

300

Ecology

interactions of living organisms and their environment

300

One organisms benefits from an organism while the other organism is harmed in the process 

Parasitism

300

How much energy is lost in a food chain?

10%

300

Living things are unicellular or multicellular

Cells

400

Photosynthesis

Process where plants turn light energy into chemical energy

400

Symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit from the relationship

Mutualism

400

What would happen if the owl population died in this food chain?

plant -> insect -> mouse -> owl

The mouse population would increase

400

Life must be able to pass on genetic information (DNA) from generation to generation

Reproduction

500

Population

All the individuals of a species in a given area

500

Commensalism 

One organism benefits while the other is neither harmed nor gains

barnacles on a whale 

bird nesting in a tree

500

Label this food chain with the correct trophic levels Seeds -> Snail -> Bird -> Fox

Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
500

Life must be able to react to signals from the external environment and maintain an internal balance

Response to Environment and maintain homeostasis

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