Vocabulary
Levels
Trophic Levels
Food Webs
Symbiosis
100
What makes its own food?
What are 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
The three symbiotic relationships
What are commensalism, parasitism and mutualism?
200
Species must share limited resources. What resources?
Food, shelter, space
200
How Do Prey Species Avoid Predators? give three examples
•Run, swim, or fly fast
•Highly developed sight, hearing, or smell
•Physical protection: shells, spines
•Camouflage: shapes and colors
•Chemical defenses: poisons, irritating (stinging), foul-smelling or bad tasting (can be poisonous)
–Warning coloration
•Behavior: mimicry, grouping together
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 type of competition would Two chicken fighting for one worm be?
Intraspecific Competition
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
The ________ feed on the corpses and carcasses of dead animals and plants, breaking down tissues so ________ can return all energy to the cycle to circulate it again
What are scavengers and decomposers?
400
Type of symbiosis:
Oxpeckers eating bugs on a giraffe
Mutualism
Oxpecker: gets food
Giraffe: less bugs
500
What is resource partitioning?
shared resources at different times, in different ways, or in different places.
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