Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Ecology
Levels
Levels
Symbiotic Relationships
Energy
Pyramid
Pyramid
Food Chains
and Webs
and Webs
The Red
List
List
100
Rocks. Biotic or Abiotic?
Abiotic
100
The biotic factors and how they interact with their environment
Ecosystem
100
Where one species hunts and eats another species
Predation
100
Only about what percent of energy moves up the pyramid from producers to consumers?
10%
100
All food chains and food webs start with what?
A source of energy
100
What type of natural change happened if a volcano erupted and destroyed a group of redwood trees?
Natural Disaster
200
Decomposers. Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic
200
A single organism
Individual
200
Where both species benefit
mutualism
200
An energy pyramid can have up to how many levels?
5
200
What does a fox eat?
Rabbits and mice
200
The highest level of the red list without being extinct is called what?
Critically endangered
300
Fallen leaves. Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic
300
A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
Biome
300
An Oxpecker lives on a zebras back. The Oxpecker eats the bugs off the zebra.
Mutualism
300
The second level of the energy pyramid contains what type of species?
Herbivores or Primary Consumers
300
The grasshopper, mouse, and rabbit are what type of organisms?
Primary Consumers
300
If a species only exists in zoos it is said to be what red list rating?
Extinct in the wild
400
Biotic Factors that eat plants and produce carbon dioxide.
Consumers
400
All living and non-living things on Earth
Biosphere
400
Two kangaroos box for the rights to territory
Competition
400
A raccoon eats both berries, eggs, and different insects. What level of the pyramid is a raccoon most likely on?
Secondary consumer
400
Make a food chain that contains both the grasshopper and an owl.
Sun --> Grass --> grasshopper --> frog --> owl
400
What type of human activity is the illegal shooting of a species?
Poaching
500
How do producers make oxygen for animals?
Through photosynthesis
500
A group of 1 type of species.
Population
500
A Wren makes its nest in a cactus for extra protection.
Commensalism
500
What is one way energy is "lost" in the energy pyramid?
Through life processes (living, growing, reproducing, etc.) energy is lost as heat.
500
What role does the fox play in this ecosystem?
A secondary consumer
500
What does "IUCN" stand for that created the red list?
International Union for the Conservation of Nature