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What is it called for a species of animals to come into an ecosystem and wreck the food web because they have no predators?
What is invasive species?
What is one path of eating relationships called?
Ex.
Grass -> Grasshopper-> Rabbit -> Wolf
What is a food chain?
What is the process called by which plants take in sunlight and convert it to sugar, or food for humans?
What is photosynthesis?
What is a plant called that performs photosynthesis? Producer, Consumer, or Decomposer?
What is a Producer?
What is the relationship called when both animals benefit by having a relationship with each other?
What is mutualism?
On average, what percentage of energy is actually passed from one trophic level to the next?
10% (Accept 5-15%)
What does the arrow represent in the food chain and food web?
What is "eaten by"?
What do humans breathe out and take in for air? 2 answers. How is it different for a plant?
Humans breathe out carbon dioxide and breathe in oxygen that the plant makes by photosynthesis. A plant takes in carbon dioxide and gives out oxygen. Plant does not do photosynthesis at night with no sunlight.
What is it when an animal eats another animal to obtain energy? They can not get food directly from the Sun.
What is a consumer?
What is it called when two different animal species have a relationship together? Begins with an "S"
What is symbiosis?
What symbiotic relationship is it when a tick bird eats the ticks off a zebra's back?
What is mutualism because the zebra wins by having the tick bird eat the parasite tick off and also the tick bird gets food by eating them off?
Please put this food chain together ----
seal, killer whale, plankton, fish
What is the correct order? Why?
What is the food chain should look like this:
plankton -> fish -> seal -> killer whale
Must start with a producer, next herbivore, and end with a carnivore.
What 4 things does a plant need to perform photosynthesis? You need to identify all 4 in order to get it right.
What is sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and most importantly, chlorophyll?
What is an organism that eats dead or decayed matter and changes the waste into nutrients to be put into the soil?
What is a Detritivore?
What is the relationship called when one animal benefits and the other animal is harmed?
What is parasitism?
If only 10% is passed on, what happens to the other 90% of the energy?
It is lost as heat, used for movement/growth, or excreted as waste.
What is the difference between predator and prey?
A predator is an animal that hunts another animal. Prey is an animal that is eaten by an animal.
What two things does a plant make using photosynthesis? You need to identify both in order to get all the points.
What is sugar and oxygen?
What is their role in the environment when the animals break down large dead pieces into smaller dead pieces? They do not break it down and put it into the soil.
What is a scavenger?
What is the animal or organism called that gets affected by the parasite?
What is the host?
Please identify these 3 organisms as producer, consumer, and decomposer. Must identify all 3.
A. Mushroom
B. Dragonfly
C. Plankton
What is
A. Decomposer
B. Consumer
C. Producer
What is the correct words to finish this food chain?
Producer -> ___________-> Omnivore -> _______________ -> Decomposer
What is herbivore and carnivore?
What is the green chemical in the plants that likes to soak in sunlight and makes the plants the color green?
What is chlorophyll?
What does an omnivore, herbivore, and carnivore eat? Must be right on all 3 in order to get the points.
What is the relationship called when one animal is helped by the relationship and the other animal is not helped nor harmed (not affected)? An example of this relationship is a Barnacles on whales, remoras on sharks, or emperor shrimp on sea slugs
What is commensalism?