Symbiosis
The mosquito sucks the blood of humans, leaving a red bump and sometimes diseases.
What is Parasitism?
A mushroom is a type of _______.
What is a Decomposer?
If you are in the park and see a bee taking nectar from a flower, what is the producer and what is the consumer?
What is the flower is the producer and the bee is the consumer?
As energy moves up an energy pyramid, it…
When one organism (predator) kills and eats the other organism (prey)
What is Predation?
The lynx preys on the hare population in Canada.
What is Predation?
A lizard is a type of _____.
What is a Consumer/ Heterotroph?
A network of several interacting food chains.
What is a Food Web?
Where does the energy in trophic level 1 come from?
What is The Sun?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a Producer/Autotroph?
A cat gets shelter and food from its human, the human gets companionship and love from the cat. This is ....
What is Mutualism?
An angler fish is a type of ______.
What is a Consumer/Heterotroph?
In a food chain, the arrows always point to the one
What is "doing the eating"/the energy flow?
Name the Trophic levels in Order.
What is Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumer, and Tertiary Consumer?
If a species share a niche with another species, there is_____.
What is Competition?
The cattle egret follows the cow to eat its leftovers, the cow is not affected.
What is Commensalism?
A Worm is a type of _____.
What is a Decomposer?
The arrows in a food chain or food web tell you the…
What is The Direction of Energy Flow?
energy is transferred from one level to the next; the rest is lost as heat
What is The 10% Rule?
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
What is a Food Chain?
Squirrels and rats needing the same food resources in the same place at the same time.
What is Competition?
A coral is a type of ____.
What is a Producer/Autotroph and Consumer/Heterotroph?
______ is at the very end of a food chain.
What is a Decomposer?
The removal of which group would cause an immediate decrease in the amount of energy flowing through a food web?
What is a Producer?
The special role an organism has in the ecosystem (what it eats, where it lives, what species it interacts with, etc.)
What is a Niche?