This is the smallest unit of organization in an ecosystem.
What is organism?
100
This is the type of organism that cannot produce their own food.
What is a consumer (or heterotroph)?
100
This is the first level in an energy pyramid.
What is producer?
100
This is the more scientific name that describes how water cycles on Earth.
What is the hydrologic cycyle?
100
This is the type of ecological relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
200
This is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
200
This is a type of organism that breaks down organic matter into simpler components.
What is a decomposer?
200
This is the name for an organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200
The main component of this cycle is key to the structure of all organisms on Earth.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
This is the type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is neither harmed nor helped.
What is commensalism?
300
This is the total variety of organisms in the biosphere or in a defined location.
What is biodiversity?
300
This is another name for a producer.
What is autotroph?
300
What percent of the original energy makes it to the next trophic level in an energy pyramid?
What is 10 percent?
300
Certain types of bacteria convert nitrogen to ammonia through this process.
What is nitrogen fixation?
300
This is the name of the relationship between a tick and a dog.
What is parasitism?
400
This is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors.
What is biotic is loving or once-living and abiotic is non-living?
400
This is the difference between a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain shows one set of feeding relationships in an environment while a food web shows many feeding relationships and is more complex.
400
This is the term for the type of organism that consumes secondary consumers?
What are tertiary consumers?
400
This is the difference between primary and secondary succession.
What is primary succession begins where no life has previously been found. Secondary succession occurs after a disturbance in the ecosystem?
400
This is the type of relationship a bee and a flower have.
What is mutualistic?
500
This is a group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms.
What is a biome?
500
This is a place you might find chemosynthetic organisms.
What are deep-sea vents?
500
If there are 4000 organisms at the producer level, how many would you find at the tertiary consumer level?
What is 4 organisms?
500
This is the name for a process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another.
What is a biogeochemical cycle?
500
This is the type of relationship you would find two organisms in the same ecosystem that eat the same food.