All living factors in an ecosystem
What are biotic factors
What organism(s) represent the largest trophic level?
What are grass and shrubs
What do the arrows in a food chain or web represent
Arrows represent how the energy is being transferred (who is eating who)
A symbiotic relationship that involves species having to fight for something they both need or want
What is competition
What is the difference between a community and an ecosystem?
An ecosystem contains abiotic and biotic factors, a community only contains biotic factors
All of the living things interacting with the nonliving aspects of the environment
In an energy pyramid what is the proper name for ANY organism above the producer level.
What is a consumer
Name a predator-prey relationship
coyote - rabbit
spider - insect
hawks - seed eating birds
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the detriment of the spruce tree. What type of relationship is this?
Limiting factors
A place where a plant or animal lives
What might happen if you remove a primary consumer (what eats the producer) from an ecosystem?
The number of plants would increase
An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts
What is a decomposer
When a mosquito bites you, you are the ________, and the mosquito is the ________
Host; parasite
Two humans fighting over shelter while stranded in a blizzard would be an example of which type of competition.
Intraspecific competition
Interacting populations of various kinds of individuals or species in a common location
What is a community
Where do producers get their energy from?
What might happen to the rabbit, insect, and seed-eating birds if grasses and shrubs were removed from the ecosystem?
The herbivore population would decrease
The maximum amount of organisms that can survive in an ecosystem
Interspecific competition
Rocks, water, and sunlight are examples of this type of factor.
What is an abiotic factor
Predator population would increase
Chemical is released during decomposition
Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. This is an example of what type of relationship
Mutualism
The draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure
Runoff