Vocabulary
Levels
Trophic Levels
Food Webs
Symbiosis
100
What makes its own food?
Producers/Autotrophs
100
What is the biggest level of organization? (Everything from bottom of the ocean to the atmosphere)
Biosphere
100
What is one trophic level?
Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, decomposer
100
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
Web= many directions
Chain= 1 direction
100
What is symbiosis?
A type of relationship between organisms
200
What eats other things for energy?
Consumer/Heterotroph
200
What is the smallest level of organization?
Organism
200
What trophic level does a tree belong to?
Producer
200
What do food webs show?
What eats what, the path of matter/energy
200
Type of symbiosis: cheetah hunting a gazelle
Predation
300
What is the difference between herbivores and carnivores?
Herbivores: Eat plants
Carnivores: Eat meat/animals
300
What is a group of the same species?
Population
300
What trophic level would an elephant belong to?
Primary Consumer (eats plants)
300
Who do the arrows in a food web/chain point to?
The eater
300
Type of symbiosis: many species use the same water holes in africa
Competition
400
What is an omnivore?
Eats both plants and animals
400
What is a type of place?
Biome
400
What level would a venus flytrap belong to?
Either producer (does photosynthesis) or secondary consumer (low-level predator)
400
Draw the food web:
Owl: eats snake, mouse, rat rabbit, grasshopper
Snake: eat mouse
Rat: eats mouse, grasshopper
Mouse: eats grass
Grasshopper: eats grass
Rabbit: eats grass
400
Type of symbiosis:
Oxpeckers eating bugs on a giraffe
Mutualism
Oxpecker: gets food
Giraffe: less bugs
500
What is a non-living thing that affects living things?
Abiotic Factor
500
What is a specific place and its organisms?
Ecosystem
500
What level would a mushroom belong to?
Decomposer (breaks down dead matter)
500
What is wrong with this diagram?
-Arrows the wrong way
-Shows a web, not a chain
500
Type of symbiosis:
Poison dart frog living in a plant
Commensalism
frog: place to hide/live
Plant: nothing