Ecosystems
Organisms
You are what you Eat!
Food Chains
Interactions of Living Things
100
Give an example of a Biotic factor in a Biome.
Answer:Anything Living
100
What is a single living thing called?
Organism
100
_________ get their energy from the SUN. They make their own food
Producers
100
Where do all food chains start?
The Sun!
100
Predation: interaction where one organism (predator) kills another organism for food (prey)
Give an example of a predator/prey relationship.
Lion/ Antelope
Great White Shark/Seal
Eagle/Mouse
200
Give an example of an Abiotic factor in a biome.
Anything that is Nonliving: Sun, Clouds, Water, River.
200
Population: A group of interbreeding organisms (__________) living in the same area
Species
200
What is the process that Producers do to make their food?
Photosynthesis
200
Primary (1st) Consumer: eats producers/plants and can be an
Herbivore OR Omnivore
Give an example.
Grasshopper
Mouse
200
Competition: struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited __________.
Resources
300
All Organisms are made of _________.
Cells
300
What would you find in a community?
Example: Pond in a Park
All the frogs, insects, reptiles, birds, plants, mushrooms, bacteria, protists, mammals & fish living in the pond
300
__________ Eats leftovers
__________ Breaks down decaying material
Need to get both right!
Scavenger
Decomposer
300
Secondary (2nd) Consumer: a carnivore or omnivore eats the primary consumer.
Give an Example
Mouse
Snake
300
There are three types of symbiotic relationships:
Mutualism (+,+): relationship where both species benefit
Give an example of a mutualistic relationship.
Clownfish and Sea Anemone
Clownfish & Sea Anemone
Buffalo and Tickbird
Bumblebee and Flowers
400
What does the prefix "bio" Mean? (Biology is the study of _____)
Life
400
All Living things need three things to survive. What are they?
Food, Water, and Shelter
400
Consumers/Heterotrophs get their food from other sources. What are the three types of Consumers?
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
400
Tertiary (3rd) Consumer: eats primary or secondary consumers.
Called the “top of the food chain”
Name an Apex Predator.
Falcon
Great White Shark
Lion
400
Commensalism (+,0): relationship where one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed
Give an Example.
Elephant and Egret
500
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
500
Put the levels of organization for an organism in order.
Tissue, Organ System, Organ, Organism, Cell
Cell, Tissue, Organ , Organ System, Organism
500
Give an example of a Carnivore, Herbivore, and Omnivore.
Must give an example of all three
Carnivore: Lion
Herbivore: Giraffe
Omnivore: Humans, Bears
500
Give an example of a food chain in your Biome.
Answers may Vary
500
Parasitism (+,-): relationship where one species benefits (parasite) while the other is harmed (host)
Give an Example.
Ticks & Mammals
Mosquitoes & Mammals