Vocabulary
Food Chains & Webs
Ecosystem Levels
Community Interactions
Population Growth
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100

What is a biotic factor?

What is a living part of an ecosystem?

100

What is the main energy source for most ecosystems?

What is the Sun?

100
Two or more organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
100

A hawk catches and eats a mouse. What interaction is this?

What is predation?

100

What is carrying capacity?

The largest population size an environment can support over time with available resources.

100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
100

What is the world's largest living structure?

What is the Great Barrier Reef?

200

Non-living factors in a community are called..

What is abiotic factors?

200

What is a producer?

An organism that makes its own food and brings energy into the food web.

200
Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
200

Two rabbits need the same limited food. What interaction is this?

What is Competition?

200

Name two limiting factor.

Food, water, space, disease, predation, temperature, etc.

200
A wildfire would be an example of what form of ecological succession?

What is secondary succession?

200

How many bones are in the adult human body

What is 206?

300

Something that only eats plants

What is a herbivore?

300

What amount of energy is available as it move up trophic levels?

What is 10%?

300
One individual
What is a organism?
300

A tick gets nutrients from a deer and harms the deer. What interaction is this?

What is Parasitism?

300

What is competition?

A relationship in which organisms use the same limited resource.

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
300

Which animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that they can potentially confuse investigators?

What are Koalas?

400
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
Two or populations of species.
What is a community?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
400

Predict the effects on the population primary consumers if the number of predators INCREASED?

What is that the primary consumers would decrease?

400
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
400

Which country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles?

What is Brazil?

500

What is biodiversity in an ecosystem?

What is the variety of organisms in an ecosystem?

500

If grass decreases greatly, predict one direct and one indirect effect.

What Herbivores may have less food and decrease or compete more?

500
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
500

Explain how removing a predator could affect more than one population.

What is Prey may increase, which can increase use of plants or other prey and increase competition. ?

500

A deer population reaches carrying capacity. What might happen next, and why?

What is Population growth may slow or level off because resources become limiting. Competition, disease, predation, or other limiting factors may increase?

500
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
500

What is the largest organ of the human body?

What is the Skin?

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