Food Chain/Web
Symbiotic Relationships
Pyramids/Levels of organization
Nutrient Cycles
Population Ecology
100

Which is a food chain 

100

Wolves eat rabbits. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?

Predator prey.

100

What is the basic unit of life?

Cells

100

What is nitrogen fixation?

The process where some bacteria remove nitrate from the soil by converting it to nitrogen gas.

100

What is a pioneer species?

The first species in primary succesion.

200

What is the definition of a food chain?

A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

200

Oxpeckers land on Rhinos and eat ticks that live on their skin. The birds get food and the Rhino gets pest controlled. What kind of symbiotic relationships?

Mutualism

200

What are the levels of the organization?

cells -> tissues -> organs -> organs -> organisms

200

The process in which nitrogen gas is converted into ammonium ions is.

Ammonification

200

What is primary succession?

The first stage in ecological succession

300

What is a food web?

A bunch of connected food chains.

300

Remoras have a disk on their head to attach to sharks and whales. The sharks give the Remoras a free ride through the ocean. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?

Commensalism.

300

If there is 1000 energy at the bottom of the pyramid how much energy is at the top?

100

300

When plants and animals die carbon is released from their tissues through

Decomposition

300

what is the difference between secondary succesion and primary succession?

Secondary succession has soil.

400

What is missing?

Decomposer

400

Fleas and ticks live on dogs and cats. They live of the blood of the animals. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?

Parasitism.

400

What is a biomass pyramid?

A pyramid that shows how much biomass of a certain species is in an area.

400

How does carbon cycle through the environment?

Photosynthesis

Burning fossil fuels

Decomposition

Respiration

400

What can turn a Climax Community into secondary succession?

Wildfire Flood Tornado Hurricane etc.

500

What is missing?

Sun and Decomposer

500

A rabbit has Hepatic Coccidiosis which causes anorexia.  A wolf eats the rabbit because it is weakened. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?

Parasitism and Predator Prey.

500
Why would a pyramid of numbers not look like a traditional pyramid?

There are fewer producers than consumers.

500

The step in the nitrogen cycle where bacteria convert ammonium (NH4) to nitrites (NO2) is

Nitrification

500

What can turn a Climax Community into primary succession?

Volcano, Glacier.

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