Limiting Factors
Food Webs and Food Chains
Food Webs and Food Chains
Symbiotic Relationships
Limiting Factors/Relationships among Organisms
100
A living factor
Biotic
100
How much energy gets transferred between one trophic level to the next?
10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
100
What is this called?
Food Chain
100
One organism benefits while the other is harmed.
Parasitism
100
Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?
Omnivore
200
What type of liming factor is weather?
Weather is an abiotic limiting factor.
200
What is the smallest trophic level?
Tertiary Trophic Level
200
Organisms who must eat other organisms for energy are referred to as ...
Consumers/Heterotrophs
200
A certain type of bird eats ticks off the backs of large mammals. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
Mutualism
200
Populations compete for what three things?
1. Food
2. Survival
3. Territory
300
the maximum population that an ecosystem can sustain.
Carrying Capacity
300
When a predator population's food supply gets larger what happens to its population?
A: the predator population gets larger
300
Where does the energy start in food webs/chains?
The sun.
300
Which of these is NOT an example of a symbiotic relationship?
predator-prey
parasite-host
mutualism
commensalism
predator-prey
300
Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all _____ parts of the environment
abiotic
400
Double Jeopardy
Name 3 abiotic Factors
Water, soil, sun
400
The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?
Where the energy is going (transferred)
400
Which organisms have the most available energy
D: Producers
400
relationship between a predator and its prey?
Predation
400
Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting too large.
True or False?
True
500
The top of the food web is occupied by
Apex predator.
500
Typically the number of organisms_______ as you go up through the food web
Decrease
500
What happens if an animals moves to a new habitat, and cannot get its basic needs of food, water, shelter, and space?
Extinction
500
One benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
B. Commensalism
500
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