Food Webs
This consumes crickets.
What is frogs and birds.
This organism is a producer.
What is grass?
This is when both organisms help each other.
What is mutualism?
An early winter frost that prevents further growth in a tomato garden is an example of this.
What is a limiting factor?
What is an invasive species?
An example of an herbivore.
What is a rabbit?
This energy level (not seen in the food web) breaks down dead organisms and recycles them.
What are decomposers / fungi / bacteria?
When an organism benefits but the other one is not helped or harmed.
What is commensalism?
This will happen when the carrying capacity of bears in an area decreases.
What is a decrease in the population of bears?
This is an example of people cutting and clearing rainforests.
What is habitat destruction / deforestation?
An example of a carnivore.
What is an owl, hawk, snake, etc.
This energy level has the most energy available to it.
What are producers / grass?
When a lion and another lion try to get the same food or resources.
What is competition?
This happens when a population increases and then remains constant over the years.
What is reaching carrying capacity?
An example of this is when fishermen catch too many fish before the fish can reproduce.
What is overharvesting/overfishing?
This is population will decrease if there were more frogs.
What is a decrease in grasshopper population?
This organism gets the least amount of energy in comparison to the rest.
What is a hawk?
Competition between a pack of wolves may increase if this increases.
What is an increase in the wolf population?
This is an example of a density independent limiting factor.
What is extreme weather examples (floods, wildfires, high/low temperatures, etc.)
This is the cause for extreme weather that negatively affects populations.
What is climate change?
These organisms are competing for the mice population.
What are foxes, owls, and hawks?
This is the source of all energy on Earth.
What is the sun?
An example of this is when a mosquito sucks the blood from its host, a cow.
What is parasitism?
What is increase in population / grow?