LIVING THINGS & THE ENVIRONMENT
POPULATIONS
ENERGY FLOW
INTERACTIONS
SMORGASBORD
100
The part of an ecosystem where an organism lives and feeds.
What is a habitat?
100
The largest population an environment can support.
What is the carrying capacity?
100
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
100
The name for when an organism kills and eats another.
What is predation?
100
A complex diagram that represents many energy pathways from one organism to the next.
What is a food web?
200
bacteria and fungi
What are decomposers?
200
The effect on a population size when the birth rate is greater than the death rate.
What is increase?
200
The level in an energy pyramid that has the most energy available to it.
What is the producer level?
200
The relationship between two species that benefits at least one species.
What is symbiosis?
200
Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment.
What are adaptations?
300
The levels of organization in an ecosystem beginning with the smallest.
What are: organisms; populations; communities; ecosystems?
300
A group of deer leaves the herd.
What is emigration?
300
The type of organism a second-level consumer can be.
What are a carnivore and an omnivore?
300
A remora fish attaching to a shark and eating left-over food from the shark's meals without harming the shark.
What is commensalism?
300
The first species to populate an area during primary succession.
What are pioneer species?
400
The part of an environment including water, rocks, soil.
What are abiotic (nonliving) factors?
400
Something that prevents population growth when it is in short supply.
What is a limiting factor?
400
The 3 ways to represent the movement of energy in an ecosystem.
What are: a food chain, a food web, and an energy pyramid?
400
The term for a tick that feeds on the blood of a pig.
What is a parasite?
400
The percentage of energy passed on to omnivors who eat producers.
What is 10%?
500
All the spruce trees in a forest is an example of this. Another example is all the zebras in the savanna.
What is a population?
500
The effect on herbivores if all the producers in their ecosystem died.
What is starve (die) or emigrate (leave)?
500
The order of energy transfer in a food chain (list the levels of organisms).
What are: producers; herbivores; carnivores? Decomposers are responsible for recycling matter back into soil.
500
The term for bacteria living in a cow's stomach helps to break down the cellulose in grass.
What is mutualism?
500
The carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles demonstrate this pattern for matter in the ecosystem.
What is recycled or cycling?
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