Factor It Into Your Decision
Working on Our Relationship
Consume at Your Own Risk!
The Tangled Webs We Weave
Amber is the Color of Your Energy
100
Living or once living organisms in an ecosystem
Biotic Factor
100
This is the term for multiple of the same species living together
Population
100
This organism makes its own food
Producer
100
Analyze this food web. What is eaten by the rat? What type of consumer does this make it?
Grasshopper; Secondary Consumer
100
In this energy pyramid, which organism contains the MOST energy?
The producers
200
Nonliving elements in an ecosystem
Abiotic Factors
200
This relationship involves one animal who must eat other organisms to survive and one animal who is hunted and killed to be eaten
Predator and Prey; Predation
200
This organism only consumes producers (Both names!)
Primary Consumer; Herbivore
200
Analyze the food web. How many producers are in this food web?
4
200
In this energy pyramid, the lion would be considered what?
A secondary consumer
300
The study of how organisms interact with one another and with the physical environment.
Ecology
300
An interacting group of various species in a common location
Community
300
This organism consumes organisms that eat producers
Secondary Consumer
300
The direction of the arrows in this food web indicate what?
The flow of energy
300
In the green energy pyramid, which organisms would only take in 1% of the original total energy?
The secondary consumers
400
These are the four levels of organization in an ecosystem (In order from smallest to largest!)
Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem
400
Plants and animals exist together, helping each other create what they need to survive through their relationship in this process
The Energy Cycle
400
This organism consumes other organisms that also consume other organisms
Tertiary Consumer
400
Analyze the food web. What level of consumer would the frog be considered? Why?
Tertiary; it consumes an animal that also eats other animals (the dragonfly)
400
In the blue energy pyramid, which level of organism would most benefit from the removal of the smaller fish?
The primary consumers
500
An organism is said to have fit into this once it has found a habitat supplying the necessary factors for existence in a community or ecosystem.
Niche
500
This relationship involves one organism serving as the source of nutrients and energy and one organism living off the other organism, harming it
Host and Parasite; Parasitism
500
This class of organism feeds on all other classes...given one circumstance. What is the class and what is the circumstance?
Decomposer; the organism is dead
500
The apex predator of this ecosystem would be which organism? How do you know?
The eagle; it consumes tertiary consumers and has no predators
500
If these two ecosystems were combined, the hawk would most likely take on a new classification. What would that classification be called? (Both names)
Quaternary consumer; Apex predator