Ecology

Food Webs & Chains

100

This is the bottom level of the energy pyramid.

What are producers (autotrophs)?

200

Below is an example of a ______. cattail -> caterpillar -> frog -> water snake

What is a food chain?

300

These types of organisms that break down dead plant and animal matter into simpler compounds.

What are decomposers?

400

These are organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.

What are consumers (heterotrophs)?

500

Scientists use this word to describe a particular environment and all the living things that are supported by it.

What is ecosystem?

Relationships

100

The role that a living thing has in its habitat is known as this.

What is niche?

200

These are features of organisms that make them more suitable to their environment.

What are adaptations?

300

This occurs when two organisms are attempting to use the same resource.

What is competition?

400

Organisms that benefit from each other are in this kind of relationship.

What is mutualism?

500

A relationship where on organisms is helped and the other is not affected is known as ____.

What is commensalism?

Body Systems

100

This system covers and protects the body.

What is the Integumentary System?

200

This system supports the body, protects organs and permits movement.

What is the Skeletal System?

300

This system carries materials to and from cells throughout the body.

What is the Circulatory System?

400

It breaks down food so that the body can use its nutrients.

What is digestive system?

500

It releases hormones that control many of the body's processes.

What is the Endocrine System?

Animals

100

A journey by an animal to a new habitat.

What is migration?

200

A close ecological relationship between two different species. 

What is symbiosis?

300

A living thing that makes its own food.

What is autotroph?

400

A living thing that eats other living things.

What is hetertroph?

500

An animal that eats only plant food.

What is herbivore?

Vertebrates

100

Cold blooded animals that live on land and in the water; they have soft skin.

What are amphibians?

200

An animal whose temperature varies by it's surroundings.

What are ectotherms?

300

A set of eggs. 

What is a clutch?

400

A cold blooded vertebrate with scaly skin.

What is a reptile?

500

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