Producers, consumers, & decomposers
Ecology Abiotic & biotic factors
Food chains & food webs
Ecosystems & limiting factors
Relationships among organisms
100
These organisms use sunlight to make their own food.
What is a producer?
100
rocks, soil, climate
What are abiotic factors?
100
Grass>gopher tortoise>raccoon>coyote
What is an example of a food chain?
100
A group of the same species of organisms that live in the same place.
What is a population?
100
The pollinating fruit bat and the banana tree share this win/win relationship
What is mutualism?
200
These type of consumers eat both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
200
palmetto shrubs, pine trees, blue jay, squirrels, mosquitos
What are biotic factors?
200
This symbol shows the flow of energy in a food web
What is an arrow?
200
All the living organisms that live and interact in an area.
What is a community?
200
A tapeworm and a pig sometimes have this relationship, because the tapeworm only benefits while the pig loses nutrients.
What is a parasitism?
300
This consumer obtains its energy from producers
What is a primary consumer?
300
water, nutrients, temperature, sunlight
What are abiotic factors?
300
One shows a single path of energy and one shows the many paths of energy in an ecosystem.
What is the difference between a food chain and food web?
300
A group of organisms that are closely related and produce fertile offspring
What is a species?
300
When the tree frog uses the tree for shelter without harming or benefiting the tree, we say it is this type of relationship.
What is a commensalism?
400
These organisms break down waste material and change it into nutrients for producers.
What is a decomposer?
400
The bacteria in a river
What is a biotic factor?
400
An organism with no natural predators
What is a top predator?
400
the role of a species in its community
What is niche?
400
Anytime there is a long-term relationship between two different species.
What is symbiosis?
500
herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore
What are the 3 types of consumers?
500
the study of how organisms interact with one another and with the environment.
What is Ecology?
500
The food energy pyramid's level with the greatest amount of energy
What is the producer level?
500
This Florida native animal is endangered due to loss of habitat from human settlement in South Florida.
What is the Florida Panther?
500
When organisms compete for the same limited resources.
What is a competition?
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