Relationships and Interactions
Energy Cycles & Pyramids
Food Chains and Food Webs
Population Growth
Ecosystems
100
Name the three types of relationships we learned in class
mutualism
commensalism
parasitism
100
True or False:
Nutrients move as energy moves
True
100
What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph?
Auto: produces their own food
Hetero: consumers its food
100
What is it called when a population has reached its plateau within the ecosystem?
Carrying Capacity
100
Non living factors in an ecosystem are called________, while living factors are called_________.
abiotic, biotic
200
What is the specific role that organisms play in their ecosystem, impacting other organisms? The organisms "Job"
Niche
200
What are the three types of ecosystem pyramids?
Numbers
Biomass
Energy
200
What organism type is missing from this food Web?
decomposers
200
What would be the carrying capacity of this population?
250 organisms
200
Which type of succession occurs after a natural disaster clears the ecosystem but leaves the soil in tact?
Secondary Succession
300
What is the name for a species that is not native to an area, its introduction to the ecosystem causes a negative impact on the native species.
Invasive Species
300
What percent of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next trophic level?
10%
300
list, in order, the types of organisms found in a ecosystem. (i.e., tertiary, primary, decomposer, producer, secondary)
producer
primary consumer
secondary consumer
tertiary consumer
decomposer
300
In an ecosystem where there are wolves and their only food source is rabbits, What would happen to the wolves if the rabbits population began to decline?
the wolves population would decline due to lack of resources
300
What do you call the first organism that appears in an ecosystem experiencing succession?
Pioneer Species
400
What type of relationship do a bee and a flower have?
Mutualism
commesalism
parasitism
Mutualism
400
What important cycle occurs in the Carbon cycle?
The cycle between Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
400
What does a food web show, that a food chain cannot
relationships and interactions between organisms in the environment
400
Which line would be logistic growth?
Line B
400
List the levels of organization in order from smallest to largest
atom
cell
tissue
organ
organ system
organism/species
population
community
ecosystem
biome
biosphere
500
Give one example of a commensalism relationship between species.
Whales and Barnacles
Turtles and Algae
treefrogs in trees
500
In the Nitrogen cycle, Nitrogen is able to convert. How does it convert, what organisms help with the conversion?
organisms uptake one type of N and convert it into another type.
Organisms like plants, bacteria, fungi and other decomposers help with he cycle.
500
Create a food chain with 4 organisms in order from the producer-->apex predator
a list of 4 organisms
500
Identify the point in this graph where you can find exponential growth.
In the middle part, where the depopulation is increasing the most
500
What is it called when an ecosystem going through succession reaches it's final stage of maturity/growth?
Climax Community