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Energy Transfer
Food Webs
Ecological Relations
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Producers are located at the _________ of the energy pyramid.
What is the bottom?
100

Food webs are made from overlapping _______________ and illustrate many feeding interactions among organisms in an ecosystem.

What are food chains?

100
A relationship where one organism benefits, and the other is adversely affected.
What is parasitism?
100
All the plants and animals in an area make up a ___________.
What is a community?
100
A system that includes all living organisms (biotic factors) in an area as well as its physical environment (abiotic factors) functioning together as a unit.
What is an ecosystem?
200
There are always more consumers than producers in an ecosystem. True or False?
What is false?
200
All food webs start with ___________.
What are producers / autotrophs / plants.
200

Lions hunting for a herd of buffalo

What is Predation

200

What do all these living things have in common? deer, rabbit, squirrel

They are all herbivores because they all eat only plants.

200

The study of Ecology, ecosystems, and organismal interaction amongst each other is known as what field of science

What is Ecology?

300
As you go up the energy pyramid, the amount of organisms get from the sun decreases. True or false?
What is true?
300

What type of organism if found at the top of a food web?

What is a carnivore or a predator, or a tertiary consumer?

300
E. coli are bacteria that live in the gut of human beings. The human provides the ideal habitat for habitat for E. coli reproduction and the E. coli provides the vitamin K that we use. What is this relationship called?
What is a mutualistic relationship?
300
An organism that eats both plants and animals is known as a __________.
What is an omnivore?
300

Large areas of the world that encompass specific organisms that have adapted to live in a certain climate.

What are Biomes?

400
These organisms are at the top of the energy pyramid.
What are carnivores?
400
Make a food web with the following: mouse, snake, seeds, hawk (on the board with arrows)
What is seeds --> mouse --> snake --> hawk
400

The 3 major Ecological interactions are

What is Competition, Predation, Symbiosis?

400
An organism that eats only other animals is also known as ___________.
What is a carnivore?
400
These organisms recycle dead matter and waste into nutrients for the soil.
What are decomposers?
500
As energy goes from the sun to plants to consumers, the amount of energy that is transferred one level to another is _____%.
What is 10%?
500
When predators increase in a food web, what is the impact on the food web?
The number of prey decrease, and eventually, the predators run out of food to eat because they have hunted all the prey.
500
As bison walk through the grass, insects become active and are seen and eaten by cowbirds. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the bison. What kind of relationship is this?
What is a commensalistic relationship?
500
Organisms that can generate their own food are also known as producers, or ________________.
What are autotrophs?
500

Without these organisms, food webs would not exist. All living things rely on these organisms.

What are producers, or autotrophs?

600

A diagram used to illustrate the amount of energy at each trophic level

What is an "Ecological Pyramid?

600

Organisms that are herbivores that consume and get their energy by feeding on decaying organisms.

What are Detritivores?

600

3 types of symbiotic relationships that exist in an ecosystem are

What is Parasitism, Commensalism, Mutualism?

600

Organisms that feed on primary consumers are called

What are Secondary Consumers?

600

What are the levels of ecology, from smallest to largest.

Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biomes, Biosphere