Ecology 101
The main source of energy for life on Earth is _.
What is the Sun?
Organisms that obtain energy from the foods it consumes
What is a heterotroph (or consumer)?
Organism that obtain energy by eating animals
What are carnivores?
A __ is a step in a food chain or food web.
What is a trophic level?
A single living thing is an __.
What is an organism?
The study of life and living things
What is Biology?
Organisms that can capture energy from sunlight and use it to produce its own food through photosynthesis
What is an autotroph (or producer)?
Organisms that obtain energy by eating only plants
What are herbivores?
_ is a network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A herd of white-tail deer is a __.
What is a population?
The study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
What is Ecology?
Organisms that obtain energy by eating both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
__ are organisms that break down and obtain energy from dead organic matter... give 2 specific examples
What are decomposers? Two specific examples are... worms, fungi, some bacteria
__ is a diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter within each trophic level in a food chain or food web.
What is an ecological pyramid?
The _ is the entire Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere
What is the biosphere?
__ include all living things. Give three specific examples.
What is biotic? Three specific examples are....
In the following food chain, __ is the primary consumer. Grain -> Mouse -> Snake -> Hawk
What is the mouse?
Tertiary consumers eat __.
What is a secondary consumer?
Only ___ % of the energy stored in an organism can be passed on to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
List 3 types of biomes
Rainforest, tundra, wetlands, taiga, deserts, coral reefs, grasslands, etc...
__ include nonliving things. Give 3 specific examples.
What is abiotic? 3 specific examples are...
The 4th level on an ecological pyramid represents __.
What are tertiary consumers?
A bear that eats a fish that ate bugs that ate algae is a __.
What is a tertiary consumer?
A person who eats a chicken that ate grain is a __?
What is a secondary consumer?
List the levels of organization from smallest to biggest
What are... organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?