Relationships
A snake stalks and kills a mouse
What is predator prey relationships?
Begins with soil and where life has been before.
What is secondary succession?
The plants, animals, soil and water in an area is best described as......
What is an ecosystem?
What does an arrow mean in a food chain?
The arrow shows the direction of the flow of energy. It always points to the one that is getting the energy.
Starting with 1000 kcal state the next three levels.
What is 10%?
1000--> 100--> 10 ----> 1
Bees work together to make honey.
What is cooperation?
A retreating glacier and a volcano can lead to this type of succession.
Primary succession
All the wild turkeys in the Old Cove forest.
What is a species?
The bottom layer of a food pyramid, the first link in a food chain. The layer with the most energy from the sun.
What is a producer?
grass-->grasshopper-->mouse-->snake--> hawk
Identify each level naming it as a type of consumer or producer.
Grass - producer
grasshopper - primary consumer
mouse - secondary consumer
snake - tertiary consumer
hawk --quaternary consumer
A flea living on a dog. Give the relationship and the signs (+ or - or 0) to show the relationship.
What is parasitism?
+ and - one benefits one is harmed
A forest fires burns 100 acres of timberland. What type of succession would this lead to?
What is secondary succession.
What is the biosphere?
A herbivore is an animal that eats plant. What level would it be in a food web?
What is a primary consumer?
An average increase in Earth' s temperature thought to be brought on by......
What is global warming?
An amoeba lives in the gut of a termite. The termite cannot digest its food without the amoeba and the amoeba gets food from the termite.
Give the name and signs
mutualism
+ and +
The first species is called a pioneer species because it breaks down rocks to make soil.
All the plants and animals in the forest.
What is a community?
Organisms that must eat food to obtain energy.
What is a consumer?
This vital element is essential for all living things but cannot be used from the air it must be changed by a bacteria through _________fixation.
What is nitrogen?
A barnacle hitches a ride on the whale. The whale says that it is okay, he does not mind at all.
name and sign
commensalism
+ and 0
1) A pond dries up and grows trees.
2) An algae overgrowth occurs in a pond and dies falling to the bottom. It continues to happen for a long period of time. Small plants grow and then bigger plants grow.
#1 What is secondary succession?
#2 What is primary succession?
Put the levels in the correct order from smallest to largest.
biome, biosphere, community, ecosystem, organism, and population
A complex overlapping of food chains.
What is a food web?
A ________ is the place that an organism lives but a _____________ is its role in the environment. (or its job)
What is a habitat and what is a niche?