Vocabulary
Food Webs
Relationships
Biodiversity
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of chemical energy by photosynthesis.
What is producers?
100
A deer caught by a Florida panther.
What is a predator-prey?
100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
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
Harmful to one organism and beneficial to others
What is the parasitism?
200
water and air
What is abiotic?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
Primary consumers are...
What are herbivores?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300
Both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
300
Eat only meat...
Eat only plants...
Eat both plants and animals...
What is carnivore?
What is herbivore?
What is omnivore?
300
Roles that all species play in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
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
One benefits and other is unharmed
What is commensalism?
400
Why is the flow of energy in a food web complex...
What is most organisms are consumed by more than one species of organisms?
400
An increase in food supply and decrease in predators mean
What is increase in population of species?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500
which organism in this food web would be most affected by the loss of the crab population?
What is flounder?
500
The honeyguide is a bird that chatters loudly and fans its tail in the tops of trees that contain beehives. Honeyguides use this behavior to attract honey badgers to the trees. Honey badgers break open the beehive and eat the honey. The honeyguide is able to retrieve some of the honey badger's leftovers. What is the relationship between honeyguide and honey badger?
What is mutualism?
500
dog and cat
biotic
500
Organisms found at the base of an energy pyramid
What are producers?