Free-floating, microscopic, plantlike organisms are the producers of the ocean ecosystem.
What is phytoplankton
100
Close relationship between two or more living things of different species.
What is symbiosis
100
Herbivores that eat plants are called this in the trophic level
What is primary consumers
200
Name for an organism's role in its ecosystem.
What is niche
200
DAILY DOUBLE- What do scientists use to model how energy moves through an ecosystem?
What is food webs and energy pyramids
200
What kind of symbiosis occurs when both partners benefit?
What is mutualism
200
Largest number of any species that an environment can support without harm.
What is carrying capacity.
300
The consumers are divided into several different niches. What are they?
What is herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger
300
Warm, mineral-rich waters around the vents to make food.
What is chemosynthesis
300
Main limiting factor on the size of a predator population?
What is food supply
300
Living things that get energy from eating other living things.
What is consumers
400
When living things obtain energy by breaking down dead matter and recycling the nutrients?
What is decomposers
400
What is the position in a food chain of every living thing.
What is trophic level
400
What type of symbiosis is this? Wasps lay their eggs under skin of hornworm to eat it the body of the worm. Worm will die when larvae hatch.
What is parasitism
400
Something that keeps the size of a population from getting too large.
What is limiting factor
500
What can you learn about an owl's habitat from the contents of an owl pellet?
You can learn what small animals lived there.
500
What is the Energy Pyramid and what are its levels in order from bottom to top?
What is the amount of energy at each trophic level in an ecosystem. 1-producers; 2-primary consumers; 3-secondary consumers; 4- tertiary consumers
500
DAILY DOUBLE-What are the three kinds of symbiosis and characteristics of each?
What is mutualism- both parties benefits; commensalism- one party benefits, while other neither benefits nor is harmed; parasitism- one party benefits while the other is harmed.
500
DAILY DOUBLE- Living things that make their own food.