Food Webs/Chains
What is a decomposer?
The movement of phosphorus through rocks, soil, water, and living things, helping plants and animals grow strong bones and cells, is called
What is the phosphorus cycle?
What type of symbiotic relationship is this scenario?
A female lion stalks a gazelle. She charges and captures the prey.
What is predation?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism is called
What is prey?
A group of the same organisms is called
What is a population?
An organism that eats other organisms is called
What is a consumer?
The process that moves nitrogen through the air, soil, plants, animals, and bacteria so living things can use it to grow and survive is called
What is the nitrogen cycle?
What type of symbiotic relationship is this scenario?
Oxpeckers are a type of bird that eats ticks, fleas, and lice that feed on giraffes.
What is mutualism?
Non-living things such as rocks, water, light, and temperature are called ________ factors.
What is abiotic?
The Earth and everything in/on it are called the
What is biosphere?
An organism that eats the remains of dead organisms is called
What is a scavenger?
The way carbon moves between the air, land, water, and living things, helping to keep Earth's environment balanced is called
What is the carbon cycle?
What type of symbiotic relationship is this scenario?
The tongue-eating louse attaches itself to the tongue of a fish and sucks blood. The tongue eventually falls off. The louse lives in the mouth of the fish and acts as the tongue.
What is parasitism?
The study of interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment is called
What is ecology?
A group of populations is called
What is a community?
An organism that makes its own food is called
What is a producer?
The process of water moving from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again is called
What is the water cycle?
What type of symbiotic relationship is this scenario?
In the desert, elf owls nest in abandoned woodpecker holes that can be found in giant cacti.
What is commensalism?
A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them is called
What is symbiosis?
A community along with its abiotic factors is called
What is an ecosystem?
A system of overlapping food chains is called
What is a food web?
The way important materials like water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus move through living things and the Earth to keep life going is called
What are biogeochemical cycles?
What type of symbiotic relationship is this scenario?
Striped hyenas have been seen hunting alongside grey wolves. The wolves have excellent hunting skills, and the hyenas can break bones into smaller pieces.
What is mutualism?
Living things such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria are called _________ factors.
What is biotic?
One living thing is called
What is an organism?