Organism Interactions
Name the type of relationship: A lion stalks, kills, and eats a zebra.
What is Predation?
Predators only obtain a small amount of the energy from the organisms that they feed on because of this.
What is the 10% Rule?
All of the nonliving things that affect an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
Name one resource that causes competition in an ecosystem.
What are food, shelter, mate, etc?
What is a food chain?
Name the type of relationship: A flock of birds follow a line of ants. The line of ants stir up insect colonies as they travel and the birds eat the insect.
These organisms introduce the energy from the sun into the food web or food chain.
What are producers?
All of the living things that affect an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
Consumers who are in the same trophic level compete for what resource?
What is food?
Food molecule created by plants through the process of photosynthesis.
What are carbohydrates?
The position of an organism in a food chain or on the energy pyramid.
What is the trophic level?
A system comprising biotic and abiotic factors of an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Animals who compete over a food supply of only plants are called...
What are herbivores?
An organism that breaks down the remains and wastes of other dead/decaying organisms.
What is a decomposer?
What is Parasitism?
What is the energy source for producers, consumers, and decomposers?
What is the Sun?
Name one abiotic factor that can cause a decrease in the population of an mice in a forest ecosystem.
What is drought, loss of habitat, etc.
Animals who compete over a food supply of only meat are called...
What are carnivores?
The number of a specific organism that lives in a designated area.
What is population?
Name the type of relationship: Sea algae grows on the backs of spider crabs. The sea algae acts as a form of camouflage for the crab, and the crab provides a place for the algae to live.
What is mutualism?
What two processes do producers use to capture the sun's energy and create their own food source?
Name one biotic factor that can cause a decrease in the population of an mice in a forest ecosystem.
What are disease, increase in predatory population, etc.?
Animals who compete over a food supply of both animals and plants are called...
What are omnivores?
The many paths of how energy flows through an ecosystem.
What is a food web?