Food Webs
Limiting Factors
Energy Pyramid
Population Ecology
Symbiosis
100
Two populations that would DECREASE if grasshoppers were removed.
What are mice and birds?
100
The term for any limiting factor that is living.
What is a biotic factor?
100
The organisms that make up the bottom layer of the pyramid.
What are producers?
100
The scientific term for a single living thing.
What is an organism?
100
The term for any two organisms depending on one another for survival.
What is symbiosis?
200
The meaning of what each arrow on a food web represents.
What is the flow of energy?
200
The term for any factor that is nonliving.
What is an abiotic factor?
200
The amount of energy transferred to the next level of the pyramid by consumption.
What is 10%?
200
The scientific term for the following: a group of rabbits lives in a grassy field full of wheat and wildflowers, butterflies, and bees.
What is a community?
200
The symbiotic relationship shown here: A crocodile's mouth is cleaned by small birds that feast off of the food in its teeth.
What is mutualism?
300
Populations that would increase if Wild Cats (tigers) were to go extinct.
What are Snakes and Mice?
300
The three most important limiting factors for animals.
What are water, food, and shelter?
300
The trophic level of a fox who eats a rabbit that eats grass.
What is a secondary consumer?
300
The scientific name for the following: a group of dolphins lives in water with fish, krill, seaweed, sand, and human trash.
What is an ecosystem?
300
The symbiotic relationship that exists between bacteria living inside a human mouth.
What is mutualism?
400
The source of all energy in this food web.
What is the sun?
400
The three most important limiting factors for plants.
What are water, air, and sunlight?
400
The trophic level for a shark that eats fish that eat krill that eat seaweed.
What is a tertiary consumer?
400
The order of ecological groupings from least inclusive to most inclusive (smallest to largest).
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem?
400
The term for the relationship between a cheetah and the antelope it is hunting.
What is predator-prey?
500
A species in this food web that could be considered a Keystone species.
What are mice?
500
4 potential limiting factors for a population of rabbits in a forest biome.
What are predators, water sources, food availability, invasive species, temperature, weather, etc.?
500
The trophic level that has to have the most organisms in an ecosystem to be successful.
What are producers?
500
The term for the following species:
A group of dragonflies migrates to a lake. They begin to feed on local flower nectar that was previously only eaten by bees and butterflies. The dragonfly population begins to rapidly grow as it consumes resources. Other populations that depend on nectar begin to decline.
What is an invasive species?
500
The term that best describes the relationship between a cowbird, who leaves its eggs in a warbler's nest by removing warbler eggs, and the warbler who raises the cowbird chick.
What is Parasitism?