Vocab
Group of many populations working together
Community
Plants take in _________ and _________ during photosynthesis
Carbon Dioxide and Sunlight
What is at the beginning of all food chains?
SUN
Plant Eating Organisms
Herbivores
Mutualism
Group of the same species living together
Population
Mushrooms are an example of which type of organism?
Decomposer
What is usually the last step in all food chains?
Decomposers
Meat Eating Organisms
Carnivores
Relationship where one organism benefits and other is harmed
Parasitism
Characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive
(Example: Camouflage)
Adaptation
Scavenger
What do arrows represent?
The energy transfer
Organisms that eat both plants and animals
Omnivores
What are the other names for living and nonliving things?
Abiotic and Biotic Factors
Process in which plants make their own food
Photosynthesis
What is an adaptation of a cactus?
Survives on very little water
A third level consumer is usually which type of consmer?
Carnivore
Even though decomposers are so small, why are they so important in the ecosystem?
They break down waste and return nutrients to the soil
Relationship were one organism benefits and other is neither harmed or benefitted
Commensalism
Things that must eat other living things to get energy
Consumers
Plants give off _________ and _________ during photosynthesis.
Oxygen and Sugar
A group of overlapping food chains is called a
Food Web
An _______ _________ shows that ____% of energy is transferred from producers to first level consumers etc...
Energy Pyramid
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Barnacles riding on whales is what type of symbiosis?
Commensalism