Ecosystems
Food Chains
Energy Pyramids
Food Webs
Relationships
Miscellaneous
100
The smallest unit of an ecosystem (based on Ecological Organization)
What is Organism?
100
A diagram in a series showing the transfer of energy from one organism to the next in an ecosystem.
For example: algae is eaten by snails/ ducks eat snails/ foxes eat ducks
What is a food chain?
100
The lowest level of an energy pyramid is occupied by these.
What are producers?
100
A system of interconnected and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
100
Close relationship, involving energy, between two different organisms over a long period of time
What is symbiosis?
100
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
200
Group of animals of the same species within a given area
What is a Population?
200
Arrows in a food chain show that this is being transferred.
What is energy?
200
Organisms referred to as primary consumers or herbivores occupy this level of an energy pyramid.
What is the second level?
200
The organisms responsible for creating energy within a food web.
What are producers?
200
In this symbiotic relationship between 2 organisms, both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
200
A living factor of an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
300
Multiple populations of organisms within a given area.
What is a Community?
300
This should normally be written first in a food chain.
What is the sun?
300
These organisms occupy the third level of an energy pyramid.
What are secondary consumers or carnivores?
300
Organisms in food webs that consume plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
300
In this symbiotic relationship between 2 organisms, one organism benefits and one neither benefits nor is harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
Green algae in a farmer's pond is an example of this.
What is a producer?
400
All the organisms and the abiotic factors they depend on for survival within a given area.
What is an Ecosystem?
400
This is the first organism in a food chain.
What is a producer?
400
Lions, eagles, killer whales, and Great White sharks would occupy this level of an energy pyramid.
What is tertiary consumer or fourth level?
400
Organism missing from this food web.
What is a decomposer?
400
In this symbiotic relationship between 2 organisms, one organism benefits and one organism is harmed.
What is parasitism?
400
In this ecosystem, the relationship between the fox and the rabbit.
sun--->clover--->rabbit--->fox
What is predator-prey?
500
All the areas of the Earth capable of supporting life.
What is the biosphere?
500
This SHOULD be the last organism in a food chain.
What is a decomposer?
500
There are 40,000 kg of energy at the base the pyramid. This is the amount the secondary consumers will receive.
What is 400 kg?
500
This organism has 2 roles in the food web.
What is the Blue Jay?
Primary consumer (seeds/nuts)
Secondary consumer grasshopper
500
In this relationship, 2 different organisms of the species compete for the same resource in an ecosystem.
What is intra-specific competition?
500
In this ecosystem, the relationship between the fox and the hawk.
sun--->wildflowers--->rabbit----> fox
---->hawk
What is inter-specific competition?