Ecosystem
Organisms
Relationships
Food
Where's the Grub?
100
Sunlight, food, air, water, shelter
What are survival needs?
100
The primary source of all living things
What is the Sun?
100
When two organisms have a symbiotic relationship and both benefit.
What is mutualism?
100
All energy in an ecosystem flows through this.
What is a food chain or food web?
100
something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
200
All living organisms in an ecosystem (i.e., plants and animals)
What are biotic factors?
200
All the populations living in one place
What is Community?
200
When one organism feeds off of or lives inside a host organism and benefits while the host is harmed.
What is a parasite or parasitism?
200
The model you make to show energy loss in a food chain
What is an energy pyramid?
200
bacteria, fungi, worms, mushrooms
What are TWO examples of decomposers?
300
All the members of one particular species in a given area
What is population?
300
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
300
When an organism tries to get what it needs to survive, but other organisms need and try to get the same things
What is competition?
300
a system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
300
any animal that feeds mostly on animals
What is a carnivore?
400
Network of interactions between biotic and abiotic factors in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
400
A specie that belongs to a specific ecosystem__________.
What is a native species?
400
When prey populations increase, predator populations will experience population ...
What is increase?
400
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
400
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
500
Many of the things that the organisms need to survive, such as as sunlight, air, shelter, and water
What is an abiotic factor?
500
What do decomposers need to work effectively and fast?
What is a warm temperatures & moist environment?
500
Complete this food chain:
Grass - grasshopper - frog - _______ - hawk
What is a snake?
500
Removing the snakes from this ecosystem will affect the grasshopper population this way.
What is decrease?
500
Animal that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
600
A Living thing
What is an organism?
600
A new species introduced on purpose to deal with a pest or accidently when non-native pets are released which then over-populates an ecosystem and damages the local food webs.
What is an invasive species?
600
An ox bird waits for and consumes insects chased out of the grass as cattle move through a field. The cattle are not affected and the bird benefits.
What is commensalism?
600
Level D organisms in the trophic pyramid.
What is a tertiary consumer?
600
These special organisms eat only dead plants and animals.
What are scavengers or detrivores?