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Vocabulary
Food Webs and Energy Pyramids
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Types of Interactions
100
The non-living parts of an ecosystem are called this.
What is abiotic?
100
This is where an organism lives.
What is habitat?
100
In this food web, what eats mice?
What are owls?
100
These kind of organisms only eat plants.
What are herbivores?
100
This is the type of interaction where two organisms use the same food source or living space.
What is competition
200
All the living parts of an ecosystem is called this?
What is biotic?
200
This is an organism's way of life.
What is niche?
200
This is the only animal in this food web that is an omnivore.
What are birds?
200
These organisms only eat the flesh of other animals.
What are carnivores?
200
A shark and a remora share this type of interaction where the remora gets what it wants and the shark doesn't care.
What is commensalism?
300
All of the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time forms this.
What is a population?
300
This is the largest population that an ecosystem can sustain long term.
What is carrying capacity?
300
This is the only organism in this food web that is eaten by 3 things.
What are grains?
300
These organisms consume the remains of the dead.
What are scavengers?
300
The type of interaction where both organisms get what they want.
What is mutualism?
400
All of the populations of an ecosystem come together to form this.
What is a community?
400
Organisms that use sunlight directly to make their own food are called these.
What are producers?
400
The amount of energy in a food pyramid does this as you go higher.
What is decreases?
400
These organisms break down the remains of dead organisms into simple chemicals.
What are decomposers?
400
This is the type of interaction where the host is harmed for the good of the other organism.
What is parasitism?
500
The part of Earth where life is found is called this.
What is the biosphere?
500
A close, long term association between two organisms is called this.
What is symbiosis?
500
The number of organisms in each level of the energy pyramid does this as you go higher.
What is decreases?
500
This type of organism makes up the base of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
500
This is why giraffes have long neck.
What is co-evolution?