This is the name scientist's give a single individual.
What is an organism?
100
This is the thing in the sky that gives us the initial energy to begin our "energy flow" in an ecosystem.
What is the sun?
100
This is a relationship where one organism hunts, kills, and eats another organism.
What is predation?
100
This is the star gives us the energy our producers need to survive and create their own food.
What is the sun?
100
This is a term that means there are many different types of plants and animals in an ecosystem. It's important to maintain this balance.
What is biodiversity?
200
This is the name scientists give a group of the same species.
What is a population?
200
These are the organisms that produce their own food using photosynthesis.
What are producers?
200
This is a relationship where both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
200
There is a watering hole and it only supports a certain number of hippos. This is the limiting factor in this scenario.
What is water?
200
This is the overall term that mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism fall under.
What is symbiosis or symbiotic relationships?
300
This is the name scientists give all plants, animals, and living things that live in the same area.
What is a community?
300
These organisms survive by eating plants or animals. (Hint: looking for the overall name, not a specific type)
What are consumers?
300
This is a relationship where there is a limited resource and more than one population needs it.
What is competition?
300
There is a watering hole and it only supports a certain number of hippos. This is the term that refers to how many hippos can survive in this ecosystem sustainably.
What is carrying capacity?
300
There are two sides to predation. This type of animal is a hunter that kills and eats its food.
What is a predator?
400
This is the name scientists give the biotic and abiotic factors interacting together in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
400
These organisms eat the leftovers that carnivores leave behind.
What are scavengers?
400
This is a relationship where one species benefits and the other species is harmed.
What is parasitism?
400
This is a representation that maps out many different interactions that organisms in an ecosystem can have. It shows the flow of energy within the ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
There is a limited amount of acorns in the winter, and squirrels and chipmunks both are trying to collect as many as they can before it snows. ____________ is the type of relationship they have with each other.
What is competition?
500
This is the name scientists give many similar ecosystems across the Earth.
What is a biome?
500
These organisms breakdown the left-leftovers and distribute their nutrients back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
500
This is a relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
500
You may think of a food web as something that merely shows who eats who. But really, it shows the flow of ____________ in an ecosystem as well.
What is energy?
500
This is the name scientists call the entire Earth.