Roles & Relationships
The relation between two organisms that benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
The main sources of energy for all living things.
What is the Sun?
The latitude, elevation, climate, land, water, and air quality are considered these types of elements in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic elements (or non-living factors)?
An organism that gets its energy by eating other plants and/or animals..
What is a consumer?
The place in which a plant or animal lives and receives what it needs to survive.
What is habitat?
When one organism benefits from another by causing damage.
What is parasitism?
This process, used by producers, transforms light energy to chemical energy that the organisms stores as food.
What is Photosynthesis?
All living things need this to survive.
What is energy?
An organism that eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
An example of a biotic element in our local ecosystem.
Answers vary: What is an oak tree, deer, squirrel, grass, pigeon, etc... (living organisms)?
An organism in a food web that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
leaves -> deer -> wolf
This is an example of what.
What is a food chain?
An example of a threat to ecosystems that has the potential to disrupt the balance of things.
Answer vary: What is disease, human activity, natural disaster, weather conditions, invasive species?
An organism that returns nutrients to the ecosystem.
What is a decomposer?
An example of a threat that could disrupt the balance in an ecosystem.
Answers Vary: What is disease, human activity, natural disaster, weather, invasive species?
An organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
These show the flow of energy in a food chain or food web.
What are arrows?
A community of interacting plants and animals and their physical habitat/environment.
What is an ecosystem?
When one organism benefits from another without damaging it.
What is commensalism?
Organisms that are not native and can cause harm to ecosystems.
What are invasive species?
When two or more organisms need the same thing (food, water, etc..) but resources are limited.
What is competition?
The interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem that shows the flow of energy between all organisms.
What is a food web?
DAILY DOUBLE
Through the process of photosynthesis, plants remove this source of pollution from the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
Eating a dinner with chicken and salad would make you this type of consumer.
What is an omnivore?
DAILY DOUBLE
An organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator.
What is prey?