Food Webs
This is moved from one organism to the next in a food web or chain.
What is energy?
This type of relationship benefits one organism and hurts or kills the other.
What is parasitism?
Nitrogen most often travel through a cycle due to this organism.
What is bacteria?
This lowest part of the energy pyramid is made up of this.
What is producers?
In an ecosystem, this happens when a top predator becomes extinct.
What is the population of the animals in the level below would increase?
It is this organisms role to break down dead plants and animals.
What is decomposers?
The relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
The importance of nitrogen in the cycling of energy and matter.
What is protein production in plants?
The primary consumer gets its energy from eating this.
What is plants/producers?
Temperature, rocks, and soil are all examples of this.
What is abiotic factors?
On a food web or chain, this is used to show energy moving from one organism to another.
What is an arrow?
The kind of relationship where one organism benefits and the other is not helped or harmed.
What is commensalism?
The main role of plants in the carbon cycle.
What is to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
Where the producers get their energy from.
What is the sun?
All living things are considered this.
What are biotic factors?
In a food web/chain, this carries the greatest amount of energy.
What is plants/producers?
A tick attaches itself to a deer and sucks it's blood. The tick is considered this.
What is a parasite?
This will typically increase the amount of oxygen in an ecosystem.
Increase the amount of producers and decrease the number of consumers.
Typically the amount of energy passed on from one consumer to the next.
What is 10%?
When water becomes polluted in an area, this happens to the population.
What is the population decreases?
The term that describes two predators living in the same habitat who feed on the same prey
What is competition?
The process by which plants lose water to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Carbon dioxide and methane are typically produced through this.
What is animal respiration (breathing) and fossil fuels?
The relationship between a producer and decomposer can be described as this.
What is producers absorb nutrients from decomposed material in the soil.
This term describes how a species meets its need for food and shelter and how it reproduces.
What is niche?