This is the first animal in a food chain; It eats a producer.
What is a primary consumer
100
factor in an ecosystem that is living. Ex: Plant or animal.
What is a biotic factor?
100
A close relationship between two species that benefit at least one on the species?
What is symbiosis
100
All the different populations that live together are called?
What is community
100
The feeding relationships from one organism to another in an ecosystem?
What is food chain
200
In a food web, one level includes bacteria and fungi. The organisms in this level are called
What are decomposers?
200
A factor in an ecosystem that is nonliving; Ex- air, temperature, light, water.
What is an abiotic factor?
200
A bird eating the seeds from a flower and then dispersing the seeds through its droppings is an example of this type of relationship.
What is mutualism?
200
The place where an organism lives that provides the things it needs?
What is habitat
200
The Biotic and abiotic factors that interact within an area?
What is ecosystem
300
List the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest - Ecosystem, Population, Organism, Community.
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem.
300
This is the most important abiotic factor in an ecosystem.
What is water?
300
Remora sucker fish can attach themselves to sharks. The shark protects the remora from predators, and the remora has no effect on the shark. This is an example of __________.
What is commensalism?
300
The combined portions of Earth where all living things exist is called the?
What is biosphere
300
List in order the energy pyramid.
What is producers, herbivores, carnivores, 2nd level carnivores, and decomposers?
400
All of the interconnected feeding relationnships in an ecosystem make up a?
What is food web
400
In a food pyramid with level has the most available energy?
What is producers
400
A tapeworm living inside someone's intestines is an example of this type of relationship.
What is parasitism?
400
I eat a mouse that eats grass, so I am a _____________
_______consumer.
What is secondary level
400
the role/job of an organism in the environment.
What is niche
500
What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a food web?
What is trophic level
500
All living things contain this "building block"?
What is carbon
500
A lion killling and eating a gazelle is an example of this type of relationship.
What is predatory/prey
500
Maximum level of organisms that ecosystem can support?
What is carrying capacity
500
What are the three natural disasters we studied that affect ecosystems?