Vocabulary
Food Webs
Roles in Ecosystems
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
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 photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
100
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
100
In this process, plants take in CO2 and water using energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
100
A species that has lived in an ecosystem for a long time.
What is a native species?
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
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
200
These are the by-products of photosynthesis.
What are glucose and O2
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
Energy flows through a food chain, starting with what?
What is a producer?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300
The Plover bird gets her food and the Crocodile gets his mouth cleaned.
What is mutualism?
300
Carbon dioxide and Water
What are the products in Cellular Respiration? OR What are the reactants in Photosynthesis?
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.
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
This describes a relationship between two organisms where one benefits, and the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
400
CO2 is this type of gas
What is a greenhouse gas?
400
These were introduced in Australia to control insects.
What is a cane toad?
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
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
A name for an organism's "job" that includes its place in the food web; where it lives and the time of day it is active.
What is an ecological niche?
500
80% of the atmosphere contains this type of gas
What is Nitrogen?
500
The largest population of an organism that can live there without dying off.
What is carrying capacity?
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