Vocabulary
What does the term Abiotic mean?
Non-Living
What type of consumer only eats plants?
Herbivore
Certain insects will preform mating "dances" to fight for the right to reproduce. What relationship do these insects have?
Competition
Which gives a more accurate view of how energy moves in an ecosystem; Food Chain, Food Web, or Food Pyramid?
Food Web
What does the term biodiversity mean?
"many different living things" - it refers to the number of different species in an ecosystem.
How do producers get energy?
Photosynthesis
If an area of the forest is cleared for construction, birds in the area will come through and eat all of the worms and insects that the construction has overturned. The birds are getting an easy meal, but they are not helping the construction in any way.
Commensalism
What kind of living thing starts the energy in an ecosystem?
Producers
What does Biotic mean?
Living
What type of consumer only eats meat?
Carnivore
A fungus can grow on the skin of humans and cause an infection called "ring worm". The fungus is using the human for nutrients and energy, but hurting the human by causing an infection.
Parasitism
What do the arrows of a Food Web represent?
The direction of energy in an ecosystem.
What is a Heterotroph?
A consumer/an organism that needs other living things to get energy.
What is the name for a consumer that helps to break down the remains of dead organisms?
Decomposer
A stick bug will disguise itself as a stick so that birds will have a more difficult time hunting them. The birds and the stick bugs relationship is an example of:
Predation
What happens to energy as you travel away from producers in an ecosystem?
It goes down
What is an autotroph?
a producer/plant. Anything that makes its own energy using photosynthesis.
What is the name of the consumer that gets its energy from both plants and animals?
Omnivore
Sloths move so slowly that Algae can grow on their fur. The Algae gets closer access to the sun when the Sloth climbs trees, and the Sloths can eat the Algae as part of their herbivore diet
Mutualism
All energy in living things comes from this, either directly or indirectly.
The Sun