Vocab 1
An organism that uses the energy of the sun to make food for itself.
Producer (autotroph)
An organism that eats dead or decaying matter and recycles the nutrients back to the soil
Decomposer
Where is the origin of all the energy in a food web on Earth?
The sun
When one organism benefits and the organism neither benefits nor is harmed this type of relationship is known as _________
Commensalism
Biodiversity literally translates to what?
variety of life
An organism that is non-native and harmful to the environment
invasive species
Literally translates to "variety of life"
Biodiversity
Make a simple food chain for the following animals: grasshopper, snake, grass, frog
grass -->grasshopper-->frog--->snake
A bee and a flower have which type of symbiotic relationship?
Mutualism
The variety of traits of a single species is known as what?
genetic diversity
All the living and non-living parts of the environment interacting
Ecosystem
A species that was brought to a new place by humans, but it is not harmful to the ecosystem is known as an
Introduced species
What do the arrows in a food web represent?
the flow of energy
Two gorillas fighting over the same bunch of bananas
competition
the variety of different species in an ecosystem is known as what?
species diversity
An organism that eats another organism for energy is called a
consumer
The number of organisms of the same species that live in a particular geographic area at the same time period, with the capability of breeding is called a
Explain how energy transfers from the tertiary consumers back to the producers
tertiary consumers die, decomposers eat and recycle nutrients back to the (soil)producers.
The cuckoo and the warbler
parasitism
What is species richness in an ecosystem?
The number of different species an an ecosystem
A species that reached an area through natural methods, such as: wind, water, or wings (birds) is known as a
native species
The position an organism occupies in a food web is known as the
Trophic Level
Make a food web for the following aquatic organisms: algae, aholehole (small fish), tiger shark, seaweed, octopus, monk seal, sea cucumber, sea turtle
Mr. Robinson will verify accuracy
what is the difference between predation and parasitism?
predation one organism eats the other, parasitism one organism lives off the other organism hurting it while doing so.
What is species abundance in an ecosystem?
How many of a single species an ecosystem.