vocabulary
a place where is organism is naturally found
what is habitat
a straight up and down predator/prey relationship
What is a food chain?
one is hurt, the other is helped
What is parasitism?
what makes a producer special
they make their own food
the factor that is changed in an experiment
What is the independent variable?
the total number of a particular species inside an ecosystem
What is population?
an interconnected circle that shows possible prey/predator relationships
What is a food web?
one is helped, the other is not hurt
What is commenalism?
how much energy is at the bottom of the pyramid
100%
the amount of matter on earth never changes, it only changes form
law of conservation of matter
what is the top predator usually called?
what is an apex predator?
always at the bottom of the relationships
What is producer?
both organisms gain
What is mutualism?
how much is the energy decreasing for each level
divide by 10 (top would be .01)
the table with all the elements on it
What is the periodic table?
the particular job an organism fulfills in an ecosystem
what is a niche?
the wolf in a food web
what is the top predator (apex)?
an oxpecker picking bugs off an elks head
What is mutualism?
the use of the energy
what is survival/energy
the composition of our sun is mainly
hydrogen and helium
the scientific word for relationships in an ecosystem
What is symbiosis?
the name for what eats the producer
What is the first level consumer?
a vine using a tree trunk to climb to the sun
What is commenalism?
how is energy lost during lost?
by heat doing conversion into food
the factor in an experiment that the others are compared to
what is the control?