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Ecological Interactions
Tools of the Trade
Circle of Life
Mixing Bowl
100
One organism benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is COMMENSALISM?
100
All of the tigers* that live in Mike Tyson's house are considered a/an __________________ *I am told there are two.
What is a POPULATION?
100
The TOOL that is used to find the mass of a pencil.
What is a TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE?
100
A synonym for producers
What is an AUTOTROPH?
100
TRUE or FALSE (write out the word): An inference is an opinion.
FALSE
200
The TYPE of RELATIONSHIP in which one animal is hunted and eaten by another animal.
What is a PREDATOR-PREY relationship?
200
The group in an energy pyramid that always contains the most energy.
What are PRODUCERS or AUTOTROPHS?
200
When you use factual observations, which were gathered using the five senses, to attempt to explain something.
What is an INFERENCE?
200
TRUE or FALSE (write out the word): Heterotrophs are consumers that undergo cellular respiration, but not photosynthesis.
TRUE
200
Duckweed gives off carbon dioxide during the process of cellular respiration, which occurs in this organelle.
What is a MITOCHONDRIA?
300
Name the TYPE of relationship that involves all these: Tapeworms! Ticks! Leeches! My kids!...j/k
What is PARASITISM?
300
A zoo in Indonesia is in hot water after video footage surfaced recently showing malnourished bears begging humans for food. Several unsuccessful calls have been made by animal advocates to close the zoo. The bears from the zoo exhibit and their human visitors, together, would be considered a/an ________________.
What is a COMMUNITY?
300
The best metric UNIT to show the amount of SPACE within your aquatic ecosystems.
What is a cm^3 or CUBIC CENTIMETER?
300
Carnivore, Omnivore, or Herbivore? Becky is a very health-conscious girl who loves to eat healthy by consuming a plant-based diet and refraining from (not eating) meat.
What is an OMNIVORE? *Remember that you are considering what the species normally eats as a whole.
300
Bacteria and ____________ convert nitrogen from a gas into different nitrogen compounds, which can then be absorbed by plants and used to build proteins.
What is LIGHTNING?
400
Name the TYPE of relationship: Remoras attach themselves to sharks for a free ride, protection, and scraps of food. Remoras also remove parasites and leeches from their host's skin.
What is MUTUALISM?
400
Earthquakes, forest fires, and oil spills are all examples of events that can trigger a change in the communities that inhabit an area.
What is SUCCESSION?
400
The PREFIX for the metric unit, "daL."
What is DEKA?
400
Consider the following food chain: Grass --> Cricket --> Snake --> Hawk The Hawk would be considered a _____ order consumer.
What is THIRD?
400
Which of the following is NOT an application of a NEED of living things? Write your answer with a capital letter(s). A)Plants use energy from the sun to synthesize glucose. B)Animals and plants use oxygen for respiration. C)Coral reefs provide a living space for many small fish. D)A leaf is made up of cells, which are the smallest basic unit of organization.
D (This is an application of organization, which is a characteristic of all living things, but is NOT considered a need.)
500
Name the TYPE of relationship: Cheetahs and lions feed on similar prey, therefore negatively impacting the presence of each other by making less food available.
What is COMPETITION?
500
This organism is arguably the most important species in the Chesapeake Bay and therefore a "keystone species," because its removal would drastically change the ecosystem and worsen water quality.
What is an OYSTER?
500
Complete the following conversion: 0.1hg =________dg
What is 100?
500
Producers have stomata that absorb _____________ from the atmosphere during respiration.
What is OXYGEN?
500
The specific place (write the entire term) where excess gases like CO2, O2, and H2O vapor can be stored in a plant.
What is the SPONGY LAYER?
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