Eating Habits
Chains and Webs
Know your place
Symbiotic Relationships
Vocabulary
100
What do Decomposers eat?
Decomposers eat dead plants and animals
100
This kind of organism is always the first level of a food chain.
What is a producer
100
Owls eat mice, moles and birds. If you got rid of all the owls, what would happen to the populations of mice, moles and birds?
The populations of mice, moles and birds would go up.
100
Name the three different types of symbiotic relationships
What are Mutualism, Commensalism, parasitism
100

the process by which plants use sunlight to make food.

What is photosynthesis

200
This kind or organism has to eat to live
What is a consumer, or a heterotroph
200
If we describe a food chain as 'levels' what is the level one step up from a producer?
What is 1st level consumer.
200
In an ecosystem with grass and plants, mice, snakes and owls, what would happen if all the grass and plants died
All the other organisms would die.
200
Your dog gets a tick on it and the tick sucks the dogs blood. What kind of relationship is this?
It's parasitism because the tick benefits, but the dog is harmed
200
This is a consumer that only eats other animals
What is a carnivore
300
How does an autotroph get its food?
Makes its food from light energy
300
A food web is made of many of these
What is food chains
300
Owls are the top predator Below them are mice, rabbits and birds Below them are insects Below them are plants
If you got rid of all the owls, what what would happen to the the number of insects?
300
A cowbird is on top of a cow. Its eating the bugs on the cow. What kind of relationship is this?
What is Mutalistic. The bird gets food and the cow gets pest control
300
We are glad that these organisms eat dead things and break them down into nutrients
What are decomposers
400
This kind of organisms probably likes salads
What is an herbivore
400
As you go up the food chain or food web, the amount of energy in each level does this.
What is goes down. This is because organisms use energy they get from the previous level to live and grow.
400
In an aquatic ecosystem there are: Sharks on top Seals, large fish below sharks Medium fish below seals and large fish Small fish below medium fish Algae and plants on the bottom. What would happen to the population of small fish if the sharks ate all the seals and large fish?
The number of small fish would go down because the number of medium fish would go up.
400
A spider makes a web in a gazelles antlers. What kind of relationship is that?
What is commensalism?
400

The source of power that plants and animals need to live.

What is energy

500
This kind of organism would like a salad as an appetizer before its steak is served
What is an omnivore
500
the second level of a food web or food chain always contains this type of organism
What is an herbivore
500
In a food web, Wolves are on top Below wolves are - Cats, Snakes and Raccoon Below the cats, snakes and raccoon are - mice and birds Below the mice and birds are - ants, grashoppers and worms Below the ants, grasshoppers and worms are - plants What will happen to the ants, grasshoppers and worms if the wolves disappear?
The numbers of ants, grasshoppers and worms will go up because: There will be more cats snakes and racoons, so There will be fewer mice and birds, so There will be more ants, grasshoppers and worms.
500
Give two examples of a mutalistic relationship
What is clown fish and anemone, cow bird and cow, Bird and alligator
500

How do animals use the energy from food they eat?

What is for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain warmth.

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