Symbiosis
Succession
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Food Webs
General Knowledge
100

What is Symbiosis? 

Relationships between organisms that live in the same area. 

100

This type of Succession begins from bare rock.

Examples are: after a volcanic eruption or when a glacier retreats.

What is Primary Succession?

100

The trophic group that makes its own food and has the most biomass (the bottom of the energy pyramid).

What are producers? (Plants)

100

Animals that eat the producers and other creatures.

What are consumers?

100

This group is usually made up of bacteria.

What is a decomposer?

200

Give an example of a parasitic relationship. 

Ticks, tapeworms, beetle on plants, etc. 

200

Lichen and Moses arrive first.

What is a Primary Succession?

200

Creatures in higher trophic levels receive this amount of energy from the previous trophic level.

What is 10%?

200

Name both a Secondary and Tierary Consumer.

What are the Owl, Fox, and Couger

200

Unlike Energy in a food chain or food web Toxins do this as you move up the trophic levels.

What is increasing?

300

What is a mutualistic relationship?

When both organisms benefit from the relationship. 

300

Because After a forest fire, avalanche, or hurricane existing soil and surviving seeds are already present.

Why is Secondary Succession faster than Primary Succession?

300

Plants.

What are Producers?

300

In a food web Energy is ______ as the trophic levels go up.

What is decreasing?

300

Given this example:

1PPM

1PPB

1PPT

The one with the highest toxin level

What is 1PPM? ( 1 part per million)

400

Barnacles living on the sides of whales an example. 

What is commensalism 

400

Which type of Succession results in a Climax Community? 

What are Primary and Secondary Succession?

400

The amount, %, of energy lost to the environment in the form of heat.

What is 90%?

400

In this example, the Snake is:

Grass =>Lady bug => Bluejay => Snake => Hawk

What is the Tierary Consumer?

400

This group receives the least energy in the energy pyramid.

What is the Top predator? (Can be Tierary or Quaternary).

500

Ants and Aphids are one example.

What is Mutualism?  

500

A corn field left fallow. 

What is secondary succession?

500

This group performs Nitrogen Fixation (return nutrients to the soil).

What are decomposers?

500

The types of consumers.

What are omnivores, carnivores, herbivores, and decomposers?

500

The name for the increase in toxins in a Food Web.

What is Biomagnification?