Modes of nutrition
What is population?
A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is Mutualism?
A long-term, close interaction between two species in which both partners benefit.
What is a community of organisms and their abiotic enviroment?
Ecosystem
What is competition?
Organisms of two species use the same limited resource and have a negative impact on each other.
A food chain is a complex arrangement of interrelated food chains illustrating the flow of energy between interdependent organisms.
False
In predation, both species benefit. (+.+)
False
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
The food web is composed of a complex arrangement of food chains, while a food chain is a series of steps to transfer energy.
Give an example of Commensalism.
Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales, to no effect on the whale
A group of students finds an organism that synthesizes its organic molecules from simple inorganic substances.
What conclusion can they make?
The organism is Autotroph
A group of students finds a long-term, close interaction between two species in which one benefits and the other is harmed, what conclusions can be made?
They have a Parasitism interaction.