Levels of Organization
The most basic unit of ecological organization.
What is an organism?
You would expect to find a polar bear as the top predator in this biome.
What is the tundra?
What is photosynthesis?
A bee and flower are an example of this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
Water, dirt, wind, and sunlight are all examples of this type of environmental factors.
What is abiotic?
An area including all of the biotic and abiotic factors in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A biome known for high temperatures and low amounts of precipitation.
What is the desert?
Organisms that are able to make their own food.
A relationship where one organism eats the other for food.
What is a predator/prey relationship?
Primary consumers are also known are classified as ______ because they only eat producers.
What are herbivores?
A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area.
What is a population?
A biome with the greatest amount of biodiversity.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
This trophic level is always the most abundant within an ecosystem.
What are the primary producers?
What is a symbiotic relationship?
A bear that eats berries and fish is classified as a large _________.
What is omnivore?
The global sum of all ecosystems, encompassing all the biomes on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
Georgia is part of this biome.
What is the temperate/deciduous forest?
As organisms consume food and use energy, the energy _________ from one organism to another.
What is transfers?
Egrets eating insects that cows stir up while grazing.
What is commensalism?
Relationships that develop when two individuals of the same or different species share the same resources.
What is a competitive relationship?
A longleaf pine forest with pine trees, various insects, birds, and mammals is an example of this level of ecological organization.
What is a community?
This biome is home to trees known as conifers and animals such as moose and wolves.
What is the Taiga?
If the producers in an ecosystem make 10,000 kcal of energy through photosynthesis, the primary consumers will receive this amount of energy.
What is 1,000 kcal?
The host is usually not killed although it is harmed in this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is Parasitism?
The amount of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next in an energy pyramid.
What is 10%?