Vocabulary
Food Webs
Energy Pyramid
Biodiversity
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100

These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.

What are Plants?

100

The animals that eat the producers in a food web.

What is a primary consumer?

100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100

The source of energy for almost all life on Earth is

What is the sun?

200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200

These make up the largest group in a food web.

What is a producer?

200

Three common biotic factor in a pond ecosystem.

What is fish, lily pads, frogs, tadpoles, turtles, ect.

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

When an apex predator dies this happens to its remains.

What is the remains are broken down by decomposers?

300

Biotic and Abiotic factors in an ecosystem.

What are living and nonliving features of an ecosystem.

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down waste 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
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
400

What happens when an animal is removed from a food web?

What is some animals or plants may become over populated and some others my die off?

400

The study of how living things interact is called _____ and the scientist who studies this is called an _____.

What is ecology and ecologist?

500

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.

What is one possible pathway for energy to travel

500

What do we call the animal that has no predators in the food web.

What is an Apex Predator?

500

What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?

What is 90% is lost, 10% is available for the next level

500

Rabbit populations increased so much that they displaced many native species of plant eaters.  What is the most logical explanation for their increased numbers?

What is there are few effective predators of the rabbits?

500

A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

What is a species?

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