Ecosystem Relationships
This type of relationship benefits both organisms involved.
Mutualism
What is the primary source of energy for nearly all ecosystems on earth ?
The Sun
what organisms make their own food using sunlight
Producers
This infectious agent is the smallest microbe and can only multiply inside living cells.
Virus
Was COVID-19 a pandemic or epidemic ?
Pandemic
This organism benefits and the other organism is harmed.
Parasitism
What do the arrows represent in a food chain or food web diagram?
The direction of Energy Flow
Organisms that only eat plants are called this.
Herbivores
This agent can be classified by five different shapes, is single-celled, and can exist in pairs, chains, or clusters.
Bacteria
a global outbreak that affects a large number of people in different countries and continents.
Pandemic
This type of relationship benefits one organism while the other is unaffected.
Commensalism
How much energy is passed on to each trophic level
10%
An organism that breaks down dead and decaying material, recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.
Decomposer
This type of infectious agent has three main classes, lives on or in a host, and steals nutrients.
Parasite
an outbreak that only affects a small amount of people in a specific region or community.
Epidemic
The organism that a parasite lives in or on is known as this.
Host
What happens to the amount of energy as it goes up the pyramid.
Decreases
Omnivores
Do antibiotics heal bacteria or viruses.
Bacteria
Between 1346 and 1353, this bacterium caused a plague that killed over 25 million people in Europe.
The Black Death (Bubonic Plauge)
A tapeworm living in a human intestine is an example of this type of relationship.
Parasitism
True or False About 90% of energy is lost as heat at each trophic level
True
A food web includes grass, gazelles, lions, and hyenas. Both lions and hyenas hunt gazelles.
If a fire destroys a large portion of the grass, which animal will be affected first?
Gazelles
These organisms, often found in any habitat, can be single or multi-celled and rarely cause illness in animals.
Fungi
This teaches the immune system to recognize and fight the real pathogen without causing the disease.
Vaccine