relationships in ecosystems
This term describes a close, long-term interaction between two different species.
What is Symbiosis?
This is the primary source of energy for nearly all life on the Earth
What is the sun?
in an energy pyrimad these organisms always sit at the bottom because they have the most available energy
what are producers
This smallest microbe is only able to multiply inside the living cells of other organisms.
What is a virus?
This is a 9 letter word to isolate people forms spreading disease
what is quarantine?
In this specific relationship, one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is Commensalism?
This term describes organisms, like plants, that produce their own food using sunlight
What are producers (or autographs)?
in a food web diagram this symbol show the direction that matter and energy are flowing
what are arrows
this group of disease agents includes yeasts and molds tinea corpories or ringworm is a common
while antibiotics kill bacteria doctors will use this to build immunity so you don't get a virus in the first place
What is a vaccine?
A clownfish lives in a sea anemone for protection; the anemone gets cleaned. This is the relationship type.
What is Mutualism?
This percentage of energy if typically passed from one level the next
What is 10%
an animal that only eats producer is known by this term
what is the primary consumers
these organisms live on or inside a host and receive nourishment at the hosts expense
what are parasites
A person or animal that a pathogen lives inside of to grow
what is a Host ?
This "relationship" isn't symbiotic; it occurs when two species fight for the same limited resource.
What is Competition?
This is the form in which most “lost” energy is released into the environment
What is heat
this process allows plants to take matter from the air (Coz) and water to create food
what is photosynthesis
This type of virus specifically infects and destroys bacteria, often attaching to the bacterial cell and injecting its genetic material.
What is a bacteriophage?
This term is for the very first person with a newly identified virus
what is patient zero ?
This specific type of "accidental" relationship occurs when a predator eats a prey that has consumed toxins.
What is Biomagnification?
Because energy is constantly lost as heat, it is sard to flown in this many directions
What is one (A none-way stream)
what is decomposers
These single-celled, animal-like protists are heterotrophic and usually able to move to find food.
what are protists
Often confused with pandemic it refers to a sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in a specific population or area
What is an epidemic?