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100
The plant with yellow, waxy flowers.
What is the cactus
100
An omnivore that keeps a permanant mate.
What is The Cactus Wren
100
This plant is heliotropic to help it get sunlight
What is the Devil's Claw
100
What Bluebunch Wheatgrass would be in the food chain
What is an autotroph or producer
100
Describe the relationship where the hawk hunts the lizard
What is Predator-Prey
200
The plant that is heliotropic, and grows banana-like fruit.
What is Devil's Claw
200
Can hear their prey underground.
What is the Fennec Fox
200
This plant has a poisonous flower to keep predators away
What is the Dogbane
200
The insects and small animals that would eat the plants would also be known as:
What is herbivores or primary consumers
200
Describe the relationship where Hawks and rattlesnakes both eat rodents and they compete to get the best supply of them.
What is Competiton
300
The plant that uses the chemical Cymarin to poison.
What is Dogbane
300
Herbivore that can have a white or black tail
What is the Jack Rabbit
300
This animal has thick soles on its feet to protect from the hot desert
What is the Fennec Fox
300
The system plants use to make their own food
What is photosynthesis
300
Describe the relationship where the desert mistletoe will have its roots grow into those of the host plant and steal the nutrients.
What is Parasitism
400
The plant that will stick to you and pull off if brushed up against.
What is the Chain Fruit Cholla
400
Has 19 species and uses Oxidative Phosphorylation to retain water.
What is the Kangaroo Rat
400
Uses its spines to guard and reflect sunlight
What is the Cactus
400
Name given to small carnivores that eat the herbivores
What is secondary consumers
400
Describe the relationship where Bees and other insects pollinate the flowing cacti and in return get nectar for their food.
What is Mutualism
500
The plant that helps prevent mudslides and erosion
What is Bluebunch Wheatgrass
500
Has poor eyesight and gulps water to float and swim
What is the Armadillo
500
Grows in bunches to prevent wildfires from spreading
What is Bluebunch Wheatgrass
500
Animals like the hawk and coyote that are at the top of the food chain
What is the tertiary consumers
500
Describe the relationship where a hawk would build its nest on a cactus. It doesn’t hurt the cactus and the hawk gets a safe nesting site.
What is Commensalism