Hierarchy/Vocab
This is all of the living and non-living things found in an area. (hint: starts with the same letters as this unit)
What is an Ecosystem?
This is when one organisms benefits off of another organism, and harms but does not kill it.
What is Parasitism? (+/-)
Where is most of the energy found in an energy pyramid?
The bottom (where it is widest).
These organisms make their own food. ("Self Feeding")
During succession, do large trees grow first or last?
Last
This is all of the organisms of one species found in an area. (ex: all of the people in Peekskill)
What is a population?
This is when an organism kills and consumes another organism.
What is predation?
What type of organisms are found at the bottom of an energy pyramid?
Producers / Plants / Autotrophs
These organism eat other organisms. ("Other feeding")
What are consumers / Heterotrophs?
This is what soil is made from.
What are Dead plants?
What is a community?
This is when both organisms benefit off of each other.
What is Mutualism? (+/+)
Each level in an energy pyramid is called this.
What are Trophic levels?
These organisms eat both meat and plants.
What are omnivores?
Primary succession occurs when there is none of this present.
What is soil?
This is something that stops a population of organisms from continuing to grow. (Hint: Food, water, space, access to mates)
What are limiting factors?
This is when one organism benefits of off another organism that doesn't even notice.
What is Commensalism (+/O)
This is what the arrows represent in a food web/chain.
What is the flow of energy.
These organisms break down dead things and recycle the nutrients.
What are decomposers?
The first organisms to grow after a disaster are known as these.
What are Pioneer organisms?
Give an example of an Abiotic Factor in an environment.
What are: Temperature, pH, Light, air, etc.
What type of Symbiosis is this:
Fish eat harmful things off of sharks, and the shark provides them with protection.
Mutualism
This is the source of energy before the food chain/web even starts. (hint: it is not a living thing)
What is the sun?
Mushrooms are part of this role in an ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
This type of succession happens after a forest fire or clearcutting of trees.
What is secondary succession?