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Symbiotic Relationships
Energy
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100
The three types are parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
What is Symbiosis
100
This is the ultimate source of energy in all food we eat.
What is the Sun?
100
A consumer that eats only plants
What is an herbivore.
100
These are the non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factor.
100
The bottom level of a food pyramid.
What are producers.
200
Symbiotic relationship where both species benefit
What is Mutualism?
200
The percent of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next. (+/- 5%)
What is 10%?
200
This is a consumer that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore.
200
Population growth that stabilizes at the carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?
200
Organisms that obtain energy from feeding on other organisms.
What are consumers.
300
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
What is Ecology?
300
The arrows in a food web represent this.
What is the flow of energy?
300
This organism only eats dead organisms.
What is a scavenger/detritivore.
300
All living and non-living factors in an environment.
What is an ecosystem.
300
The role an organism plays in its environment.
What is a niche?
400
Relationship where one species benefits and other is neither helped or harmed
What is Commensalism
400
This shows multiple food chains in a an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
Trophic level of organisms that consume herbivores exclusively.
What is secondary consumer.
400
Two populations that both need the same limited resources typically engage in this.
What is competition.
400
Biome characterized by high temperatures and moisture.
What is a tropical rain forest?
500
The type of species that occupies areas recently destroyed (ex: after a volcano).
What is a pioneer species?
500
This model shows the amount of energy at each trophic level of an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid.
500
This is the number of individual species an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity.
500
Scarce resources in an environment that limit population growth.
What are limiting factors.
500
Population growth that accelerates over time.
Exponential growth.