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

These organisms are the third step from the bottom of the food chain.

What are secondary consumers?

100
When two or more organisms trying to use the same limited resources.
What is competition?
100

What happens to the energy as it moves up a food chain from producers to top predators?

What is the amount of energy decreases at each level?

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
The shrimp cleans the goby fish; and the goby fish provides food for the shrimp. Name the symbiotic relationship between these two organisms.
What is mutualism?
200
A consumer that eats both plants and meat is called a ________________.
What is an omnivore?
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 ____________ predators.

What is apex?

300

Killer whales hunting in groups are an example of organisms working together. This type of interaction is

What is cooperation?
300

Name 2 decomposers.

What are bacteria and fungi?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. They are known as "nature's recyclers".
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

A ______________ is a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.

What is population?

400
The amount of energy that is passed on from one trophic (feeding) level to another in an energy pyramid.
What is 10%?
400
Name 2 limiting factors that prevents a population from growing larger than its carrying capacity.
What are food, water, space, and disease?
500
An organisms behavior, breeding habits, gestation, what is eats, and where it lives are all part of its ______________.
What is a niche?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%? (only 10% is transferred to the next consumer)
500

The number of owls that a forest can support, depends on how many mice are available to eat and how many trees are available for owls to live in. The maximum number of owls that can live in this environment.

What is carrying capacity?

500
These organisms make up the base of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
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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