Symbiosis
Succession
Trophic/food Web
Graphs
Vocab
100

When a lion kills and eats a zebra.

Predation

100

The first organism to ever inhabit an area.

Pioneer Organism

100
what percentage of energy is passed on going up the trophic pyramid from producer to consumer?

10%

100

When a population within an ecosystem reaches the maximum amount of animals it can handle this is called what?

Carrying Capacity

100

When humans expand cities and overtake an area once inhabitated by animals.

Urbanization

200

When a bee polinates a flower and the bee uses the pollen to make food.

Mutualism

200

During primary succsion, this fungi/single celled organism is usually considered the pioneer of this new land.

Lichen

200

If the producers in the pyramid below have 100 kCal of energy how much energy would the primary carnivore have?

1 kCal

200

What is roughly the carrying capacity of the following population graph?


1.6 or 1.7

200

This type of animal can eat both plants and animals.

omnivore

300

A clown fish uses a sea anemone for protection.

Commensalism

300

What type of succession occurs after some short of catastrophe? Ex. Volcano eruption, hurricane, flood, etc.

Secondary Succession

300

Give an example of a primary consumer.

any herbivore

300

Explain where on the graph does the death rate exceed the birth rate?

Whenever the line is decreasing

300

What is missing from the following list (hint it is in order based on size)

Population, ________, Ecosystem, Biosohere

Community

400

A mosiquito sucks our blood.

Parasitism

400

This type of succession occurs when they land that is succeeding has never had life on it before.

Primary Succession

400

How much energy is lost when you go up the trophic pyramid and give 1 reason why it is lost.

90%

Surviving

400

What is roughly the carrying capacity of the wolf population in the graph below?

between 60-70

400

The amount of different organisms in an area

Biodiversity

500

A cheetah and hyena both hunt gazelle in an area. What is the relationship between the cheetah and hyena.

Bonus 200 Pts: What do we call it when 2 species both fit the same group in a ecosystem?

Competition

Bonus: Niche

500

After hundreds or even thousands or years the biodiversity of the succeeded area has become very vast and strong. We call this pinnacle of succession the what?

Climax Community

500

If the top carnivore has 8.9 kCal of energy how much would the herbivores have?

890 kCal

500

Explain why the rabbit line is higher than the wolf line.

There needs to be more prey than predators so that the predators don't wipe out all of the prey and then everyone starves.
500

The following are all examples of things that living things need to survive

Water, food, space, shelter

We call these things what?

Limiting Factors