Symbiotic Relationships
This relationship is when one organism hunts another to eat.
What is Predator/Prey?
A complex model of how energy and matter move between trophic levels.
What is a Food Web?
Every organism needs ______.
What is Energy?
Converts organic matter into small elements and molecules that can be recycled back into the ecosystem.
What is Decomposer?
Name the Levels of Organization in order from smallest to biggest.
What is Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere/Ecosphere?
What is the secondary consumer in this food chain?
Grass, Grasshopper, Mouse, Snake, Hawk
What is Mouse?
This organism also known as a top predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.
What is Apex Predator?
An organism that obtains energy by making it’s own food usually through photosynthesis
What is a Producer? Autotroph?
Woodpeckers and squirrels frequently compete for nesting sights in the same holes in trees.
What is Interspecific Competition?
If a primary consumer has 400 kJ of energy how much energy does the producer have?
What is 4000 kJ of energy?
How much energy is transferred in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next?
What is 10%?
A carnivore that eats primary consumers.
What is a secondary Consumer?
When they were first domesticated, dogs would warn their human tribe of incoming predators or strangers, while the dogs were provided with food and shelter. Relationship?
What is Mutualism?
If the producer has 100 kJ of energy, how much energy does the tertiary consumer have?
What is .1%
Name each trophic level.
What are Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, Tertiary Consumers, and Decomposers?
A carnivore that eats secondary consumers.
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
A lichen is a combination of fungus and algae that lives on the sides of trees, rocks, and other materials. The fungus provides the algae with water and minerals, and the algae use the water and minerals to make food for both organisms. What type of relationship does the lichen represent?
What is Mutualism?
A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
What is a Food Chain?
How much energy is loss as you move up the food web/chain in each trophic level due to metabolic processes and heat loss?
What is 90%?
An organism that consumes dead animals.
What is a scavenger?