Producers & Consumers
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Food web
Trophic Levels
Levels of Organization
Limiting Factors & Carrying capacity
General Ecology
100
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
100
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
100
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
100
Plants source of energy
What is sun
100
Many individuals of the same species in one area is a
What is a population?
100
Living and dead biomass in an ecosystem is called...
What is biotic?
100
squirrel
A flea bites a squirrel (parasitism). Which one of these two is the host?
200
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer? (heterotroph)
200
Any living thing that feeds on already broken down dead bodies of other living things (mostly fungus and bacteria)
What is a decomposer?
200
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
200
The diagram illustrates the trophic levels of organisms in a food web. One level is missing a label. Which organism should be placed in the level that is missing the label
A rabbit that eats grass or a heron that eats fish
200
one individual life form of one species
What is an organism?
200
the maximum number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support
carrying capacity
200
Three Symbiotic Relationships
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism.
300
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer (autotroph)
300
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
300
Identify the relationship shown on the graph
Predator-prey relationship
300
10%
What percent of energy is transferred between levels?
300
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
300
Identify the part of the graph labeled d
carrying capacity
300
No competition
Which of the following environmental conditions will have a negative effect on a population of organisms within the habitat? Abundant food sources or no competition
400
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
400
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying animals
What are scavengers?
400
On a trophic pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer
What are primary consumers?
400
What happens to the total number of organisms as you move up a trophic pyramid?
decreases
400
all the species living in a particular area
What is a community?
400
something that restricts the number of organisms that can live in an area.
What is a limiting factor?
400
Mutualism
In the example of a clownfish living in an anemone, the anemonea provides protection for the predators of the clownfish. The clownfish provides nourishment for the anemonea in the form of its waste. This is an example of which type of symbiotic relationship?
500
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
500
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
500
Food chains that are interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
500
a close, interdependent relationship between two species
symbiosis
500
The living and nonliving things in an area and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
500
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
500
Photosynthesis
Water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight are required for which process that allows producers to make the energy they need?