Organisms within an ecosystem that belong to the same species.
What is population.
100
The Mass Of Living Organisms
What is Biomass
100
When an Animal Dies It Is Broken Down By
What is Decomposers
100
The Branch Of Science Dealing With interactions among organisms
What is Ecology
100
Made up of both biotic and abiotic factors.
What is ecosystem.
200
An organism that gets eaten by other animals.
What is prey.
200
A Cat Eats A Rabbit that Eats Grass. In Ecological Terms What is the Cat
What is a Secondary Consumer
200
A _____________ includes all of the living things in an ecosystem.
What is community.
200
A relationship between 2 animals in which one animal obtains food from the other without helping or hurting it.
What is commensalism.
200
Sunlight is a common __________________ that can restrict the growth of populations.
What is limiting factor.
300
Which animal completes the food chain below:
plankton, ________, whale.
a) frog
b) seagull
c) shark
d) krill
What is D - krill.
300
Barnacles grow on the back of a whale. They gain a home and the whale is not hurt. This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship.
What is commensalism.
300
A path by which energy passes from one living thing to another
What is a Food Chain
300
When 2 predators only eat the same prey, they ___________.
What is Compete.
300
when organisms use up their resources and temporarily exceed their carrying capacity
What is Overshoot
400
Living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic factors.
400
Non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factors.
400
A ____________ lives in or on a host organism and benefits from the relationship while harming its host.
What is parasite. (Example: tick/dog)
400
Arrows pointing to an organism show the living things that the organism _______.
What is eats.
400
Arrows pointing ________ from an organism show the animals that eat that organism.
What is away.
500
Eat other consumers
What is secondary Consumers
500
There are more _________ than carnivores in a typical ecosystem.
What is herbivore.
500
When a producer is eaten, only ____% of the food energy it contains gets turned in to consumer tissue. The other ____% is used when the organism performs its daily activities and some of it is released as heat.
What is 10%, 90%
500
Populations of organisms reach a limit in their growth. Dependant on Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Carrying Capacity
500
The rate at which a population can grow is determined by its birth rate minus its death rate