Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Food Webs & Chains
Food Chains & Webs
Challenge
100
Living
Biotic
100
Non-Living
Abiotic
100
What is a food web?
Interconnecting food chains.
100
What is a food chain?
A series of organisms in the order in which they feed on one another.
100
Describe the following relationship: Mutualism
Relationship in which both species benefit.
200
The study of the environment and living things.
Ecology
200
Community of living things.
Ecosystem -or- Biome
200
Many animals eat more than one kind of food and many animals have more than one ___________________.
Predator
200
Nearly all food chains begin with ______________.
Producers/green plants
200
Describe the following relationship: Parasitism.
Relationship in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
300
Plants in an ecosystem.
Flora
300
Animals in an ecosystem.
Fauna
300
Animals that eat both plants and animals are called ________________.
Omnivores
300
The animal that eats the plant (producer).
First order, or primary consumer.
300
What law makes the oxygen, water, and nitrogen cycles necessary?
Law of Conservation of Mass/Matter
400
Role of an organism within it's environment.
Niche
400
Organism that eats dead plants or animals.
Scavenger
400
Wolf, Weasel, Corn, Mouse; which is the producer?
Corn
400
Most food chains have ___________ or ____________ levels.
3 or 4
400
What is photosynthesis?
Chemical reaction in which water and carbon dioxide are changed into glucose and oxygen using sunlight.
500
Area of the Earth containing life.
Biosphere
500
Organism that breaks down dead materials.
Decomposer
500
Deer, Bear, Bush; What would be the secondary consumer?
Bear
500
Animals that eat only other animals are ______________.
Carnivores/Secondary Consumers
500
What is carrying capacity?
The maximum population that an area can support.
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