Symbiotic Relationships
A relationship in which both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
The percent of energy that moves up each trophic level
What is 10%?
The name for an organism that makes its own food
What is a Producer?
The main source of energy for all organisms in an ecosystem
What is the sun?
The planet closest to the sun
What is Mercury?
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is Commensalism?
If there are 4500 calories of energy in the producer level, how much energy do the primary consumers have?
450 (calories)
The organisms have the most energy in the energy pyramid?
What are producers (plants)?
The way carbon would get from a plant into an animal
The animal eats the plant
The number of bones that sharks have
What is 0?
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is hurt or harmed.
What is parasitism?
If the producers have 3500 calories of energy, how much energy do the secondary consumers have?
35 (calories)
The organism with the least amount of energy in the pyramid
What is a tertiary consumer? (Quaternary consumer or apex predator)
True/False: Matter is always cycling, never runs out.
True
The largest land animal
An elephant
Dolphins and seabirds often eat the same type of food in their ecosystems.
What is an example of competition?
If the producers have 6550 calories of energy, how much energy do the secondary consumers have?
65.5 or 65 (calories)
An organism that breaks down/eats dead organisms
What is a decomposer
True/False: Energy is always cycling, never runs out
False
The age Earth is
What is 4.5 billion years old?
A frog eating flies
What is an example of predation?
If the producers have 84500 calories of energy, how much energy do the tertiary consumers have?
84.5 or 84 (calories)
What does the arrow in the food chain tell us? (For example the arrow from the insect to the mouse)
Who is doing the eating or where the energy is going to
The process plants use to absorb carbon from the atmosphere
Photosynthesis
Oncology is the study of this disease
What is cancer?