Ecosystems 1
something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Predator-Prey, Competition, Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism are examples of..
when a population of fish or aquatic animals are fished at a rate that they cannot reproduce fast enough
What is overfishing?
What is the space called where salt water and fresh water mix?
What is an estuary?
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
What is trophic level?
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materials?
Phytoplankton is an aquatic...
A) Producer
B) Consumer
C) Decomposer
A) Producer
_________ is the diversity of life at every level, including variation within a species, variation between species, and variation between populations of species.
What is biodiversity?
all of the individuals of a species that live together in one place at one time
What is a population?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that are interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
trees, grass, plants are all examples of.........
What is a producer?
Zooplankton is what type of consumer?
What is an primary consumer?
What invasive species did we study in this unit?
What is the zebra mussel?
grasshopper, cricket, cows are all examples of.....
What is a primary consumer?
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
the type of heterotroph that searches for food already killed
What is a scavenger?
A) The x-axis is the _____ line on a graph.
B) The y-axis is the ______ line on a graph.
A) Horizontal
B) Vertical
Why are zebra mussels so effective at surviving in a variety of environments?
They can reproduce quickly and at large quantities.
They also can survive in hot or cold waters.
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
What does a food web show
How animals rely on each other in an environment to live.
the symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits, one is harmed
What is parasitism?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
In a food chain what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
The Chesapeake Bay oysters populations decrease dramatically since the 1990's. Why?
They were overfished.
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
the biome that has the most diversity of plants and animals
What is the tropical rainforest?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome
What are the 5 levels of organization in ecology?
A area in a body of water that the water at the bottom has little or no dissolved oxygen.
What is a dead zone?
What is the difference between short-term and long-term observations?
Short-term = less time
Long-term = longer over time