A deer and a hawk are both examples of
What is a consumer?
An organism that kills and eats other organisms
What is a predator?
A type of species interaction in which DIFFERENT species compete for the same resources
What is interspecific competition?
A type of species interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed
What is parasitism
True or False
A change for one organism in a food web only impacts that organism
What is false
An organism that gets its energy directly from the sun
What is a producer?
An organism that gets eaten by other organisms
What is prey?
A type of species interaction in which members of the SAME species compete for resources
What is intra-specific competition?
A type of species interaction in which both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
A food chain shows _____
A food web shows __________
What eats what (one energy pathway) in an ecosystem,
All the different ways organisms eat each other (all the ways energy flows) in an ecosystem.
The primary source of energy for all food webs
What is the sun?
An example of an organism that is both predator and prey
What is a:
coyote, bird, snake, frog, spider, etc.
In a food web both wolf and bear feed on deer. This is an example of
What is interspecific competition?
A type of species interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed or helped
What is commensalism?
The area in which organisms live that is made up of living and non-living factors
What is an ecosystem?
The role of decomposers in a food web is to
What is break down dead organisms?
The three names for organisms based on what they eat
What is herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore?
Two packs of wolves fight for territory
What is intraspecific competition?
Skunks often liven in burrows that have been dug out and then abandoned by woodchucks. This is an example of
What is commensalism?
Deforestation, pollution, logging, urban development, oil drilling, and mining are all examples of
What are human disruptions?
The arrows in a food web represent
What is the flow of energy?
The organism(s) at the top of the food web
What is an apex predator?
Organisms compete for _______________ in order to ______________
What are resources and survive?
The general type of species interaction in which two organisms work or act together in a specific way
What are symbiotic relationships?
Removing the mouse from the above food web would affect the hawk population how?
What is severely decrease because the hawks would not have mice to eat AND the hawks would not have snakes to eat because the snakes would not have mice to eat