Invasive Species
This is what we call a plant or animal that moves into a new area and causes problems.
What is an invasive species?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
A relationship where both animals help each other.
What is mutualism?
Biomagnification makes harmful substances build up in this kind of organism.
What is a top predator?
This gas is the most common in the air we breathe.
What is nitrogen?
True or False: Invasive species always help the environment.
What is false?
Animals that eat plants are called this.
What are herbivores?
A tick on a dog is this kind of relationship.
What is parasitism?
This metal can build up in fish and is dangerous for people who eat a lot of seafood.
What is mercury?
This kind of organism helps turn nitrogen gas into something plants can use.
What are bacteria?
This common pet fish can harm lakes and ponds when people release it into the wild.
What is a goldfish?
A lion is this type of consumer because it eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
This helps animals hide in their environment
What is camouflage?
True or False: Toxins get weaker as they move up the food chain.
What is false?
Plants use nitrogen to help them do this.
What is grow?
Invasive species can hurt these native types of species.
What are local or native species?
This diagram shows who eats whom in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
True or False: A clownfish and sea anemone have a symbiotic relationship.
What is true?
Biomagnification mostly happens in this type of chain.
What is a food chain?
Animals get nitrogen by doing this.
What is eating plants or other animals?
This spiky plant spreads fast in the desert and can outcompete native plants.
What is a cactus?
Energy is passed from one organism to another through this.
What is eating / the food chain?
When an animal looks like something else to avoid predators.
What is mimicry?
This type of pollution causes biomagnification.
What is chemical pollution?
When animals or plants die, this happens to return nitrogen to the soil.
What is decomposition?