Vocabulary
Food Chain
Food Web
Ecosystem
RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ECOSYSTEM
100
What is a herbivore?
A plant eating animal
100
What starts a food chain?
A producer
100
2
100
What is an environment?
The surroundings of an organism that affect its life and development.
100
This fox would be considered a predator or prey?
Predator
200
What is a carnivore?
A meat eating animal.
200
What is the first step in the food chain.
A herbivore
200
3
200
What is the difference between an abiotic and biotic factor?
Abiotic means non living thing and biotic means living thing.
200
Prey
300
What is a food chain?
The transfer of energy from one organism to another.
300
How many steps are in a food chain?
Usually four
300
The sun provides photosynthesis to the plants.
300
What is an ecosystem?
all of the communities that live in an area together with the abiotic factors in the environment
300
What is an organism (parasite) lives in or on another (host) and feeds on it without immediately killing it
Parasitism:
400
What is a food web?
Many food chains that are interlocked together.
400
How much energy is lost as it moves up the food chian?
10%
400
3
400
A DEAD TREE IS NOT ALIVE BUT NOT CONSIDERED ABIOTIC….WHY?
IT WAS ONCE LIVING
400
What is a cooperative partnership between two
species (both benefit)
Mutualism
500
What is a producer?
A self feeder
500
What happens to the rest of the energy?
It gets release as heat.
500
5
500
What does photosynthesis produced?
Glucose is the primary energy source (carbohydrate) produced
500
What is a relationship where one species benefits and
the other remains unaffected
Commensalism