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
100
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
100
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism
100
The biome you would be in if you were standing on a bitterly cold, dry plain with only a few, short plants scattered around.
What is the tundra
100
The population size that an environment can sustain is known as the ____________.
What is carrying capacity?
200
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger or detrivore?
200
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are autotrophs/producers
200
Name 3 resources organisms compete for.
ex. food, water, sunlight, shelter, and mates.
200
Name two important abiotic factors in terrestrial biomes.
What is temperature and rainfall?
200
The ________ growth model is used to model population growth that is limited by density-dependent factors
What is logistic
300
What's the difference between abiotic factors and biotic factors?
What is abiotic is a nonliving part of an environment, biotic is a living part of an environment.
300
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?
300
Why are many invasive species successful?
What is they don't have predators, parasites, or diseases in the new habitat.
300
This biome gets over 80 in of rain a year and temperatures rarely exceed 80 degrees F.
What is the temperate rainforest?
300
These are slow growing populations because their population size is usually near the carrying capacity. They typically live in very stable enviornments
What is are k-strategists?
400
Mrs. Lawson went to the grassy plains. She saw a prairie dog digging burrows. This is the prairie dog's job in the ecosystem or their....
What is niche?
400
In a food web or food chain, which direction do the arrows always point?
What is in the direction of energy flow/ towards the consumer.
400
Cleaner fish feed on parasites in a shark's mouth and gills. What is the relationship between he cleaner fish and the shark?
What is mutualism
400
List the 9 major terrestrial biomes we talked about in class
What is tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, prairie, savanna, temeprate rain forest, tropical rain forest, desert, chaparral
400
This dispersion pattern is used to describe populations that are evenly spaced apart
What is uniform dispersion?
500
Hedgehogs eat leaves, earthworms, and insects. Is a hedgehog a herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore?
What is an omnivore?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer.
What is 90%
500
What is the main difference between predation and parasitism?
What is in predation one organism must die for the other to get a benefit.
500
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is deciduous
500
This is the term for the evaporation of water from the leaves of plants