Food chains and food webs
It is the primary role of plants in a food chain or food web?
What is a producer?
An interaction where organisms fight for the same limited resources like food, water, or space.
What is competition
All living things in an ecosystem are called ___________.
Biotic Factors
What is the largest organ in the human body?
Skin
The branch of science that studies living organisms, including plants, animals, and microorganisms.
Biology
This is the ultimate source of energy in the Solar System
What is the Sun?
An interaction where one animal hunts, kills, and eats another animal for food.
What is predation?
Soil, sunlight, water and temperature are examples of ________________.
Abiotic Factors.
The invisible pulling force that keeps objects grounded on Earth and planets orbiting the Sun.
Gravity
The branch of science that studies celestial objects, outer space, and the universe.
Astronomy
Herbivores make up this classification of consumers because the are the ones who can eat plant.
What are Primary Consumers?
Bees get nectar from flowers. Flowers, in turn get pollinated by the bees. Since both organisms benefit from each other, they exhibit this symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
Fallen leaves on the forest floor belong to this classification of factors.
Biotic factors (since they come from a living organism)
Name the three primary states of matter.
Solid, Liquid, Gas
The branch of science that studies the Earth's physical structure, rocks, minerals, and landforms. The branch of science that studies the Earth's physical structure, rocks, minerals, and landforms.
Geology\
Organisms like bacteria and fungi that break down dead plants and animals into nutrients for the soil.
What are decomposers
Orchids get sunlight and support from trees. trees on the other hand are unaffected by the orchid. They exhibit which kind of symbiotic relationship?
Commensalism
The abiotic gas in the atmosphere that animals breathe in to survive.
Oxygen
What is the boiling point of pure water at sea level in degrees Celsius?
100 degrees Celsius
The branch of science concerned with the atmosphere, weather patterns, and climate forecasting
Meteorology
A complex diagram made of many interconnected food chains showing all feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A tape worm lives inside its host's body. It gets nutrition from its host while harming the host itself. What relationship do they have?
Parasitism
The process plants use to combine sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce glucose and oxygen.
Photosynthesis
The dense center of an atom that contains protons and neutrons.
he branch of science that explores matter, energy, motion, and forces.
Physics