What are the three types of symbiotic relationship between organisms?
What is mutualism, parasitism, commensalism
100
What is the difference between autotroph and heterotroph
What is autotroph make own food and heterotroph eat other organisms to get energy
100
what is anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter
100
each step in a food chain or food web is called
What is trophic level
200
I am the type of scientist that study organisms and the environment that they live in.
What is an ecologist
200
Give an example of mutualism
What is when two organisms benefit from each other (flower and bee)
200
List four types of heterotrophs and give examples of each
What is carnivore: meat eater (lion)
herbivore: non meat eater (cow)
omnivore: eat both meat and vegetables (humans)
detritivores: eat dead things and put nutrients in soil(mushrooms)
200
the exchange of matter through a biosphere is called
What is biogeochemical cycle
200
is a chemical substance that an organism must obtain to live from the environment
What is nutrient
300
I am an abiotic factor that supplies vitamin D to humans
What is the sun
300
Give an example of commensalism
What is when one organism benefits but the other is neither harmed or benefits (clown fish and sea anemones)
300
Compare and contrast food web with food chain.
What is a food web is many food chains together that show the transfer of energy from organism to organism
300
name of scientist who studies water and all of its processes
What is a hydrologist
300
what can not be created or destroy but transformed
What is energy
400
What is the order of organization from simplest to most complex?
What is organism, population, biological community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
400
Give an example of parasitism
What is when one organism is harmed and the other benefits (mosquito and human)
400
what is the total mass of living matter called
What is biomass
400
Name the cycles of the biosphere. (4)
What is water cycle, carbon and oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle.
400
what is a group of antelopes called
What is a population
500
I am the role of an organism within a habitat
What is a niche
500
What part of earth is included in the biosphere?
What is a thin layer around earth that goes from the low atmosphere to the deep ocean and also contains continents
500
explain how the removal of a herbivore from a food chain could disrupt the flow of energy
What is no food to produce for carnivore or to control population of producers (grass)
500
Describe how carbon moves from abiotic to biotic parts of an ecosystem
What is Carbon dioxide in the air (abiotic) is taken into plants for photosynthesis (biotic)
500
Compare and contrast independent variable with dependent variable
What is independent you change, dependent is result of independent