Symbiosis
What is symbiosis?
The relationships between living things.
How does a population grow?
By having more births than deaths.
A food chain passes ________ from one living thing to another.
Energy
At what level are the producers in a food pyramid
At the bottom level
What is the definition of Biotic and Abiotic?
Biotic - living
Abiotic - Nonliving
When both animals benefit in a symbiotic relationship.
Mutualism
By having more deaths than births.
Food webs are made from _________ __________ that overlap
food chains
What is the 10% rule?
What is the process used by autotrophs to obtain Energy
Autotrophs make their own energy throug photosynthesis
When one animal benefits and the other one is harmed in a symbiotic relationship.
Parasitism
How does a population size stay the same?
having equal amounts of deaths and births.
The thing that eats the producer is called the ___________
Consumers
What level are the producers found in the energy pyramid?
They are found at the bottom?
What is photosynthesis?
The process in which producers (plants) make energy.
When one animal benefits and the other one is not affected in a symbiotic relationship.
Commensalism
An effect that is not direct but still affects a population. For example how the orcas eating the turtles helped the jelly population increase.
A food web is like a spider web, all things are connected...What happens when a part of it is pulled out or broken?
it falls apart
Why are energy pyramids a good representation of the amount and flow of energy in an environment?
because it separates the amount of energy according to the size of the population and available energy.
What are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores?
Herbivores eat plants.
Omnivores eat both.
What kind of relationship does:
Dogs and fleas have?
Squirrels and trees?
Clownfish and anemones?
Parasitic
Commensalism
Mutualism
how does biodiversity help a population?
more diversity in species means more options for animals to eat if one species goes extinct.
All green plants (producers) get their energy from the ____
What kind of organisms would you find at the top of the energy pyramid? do they have the most or least amount of energy available?
Top predators are at the top and they have the least amount of energy available.
What type of teeth do Carnivores, Omnivores and Herbivores have?
Carnivores have canines.
Herbivores have incisors.
Omnivores have both.