Population Interactions
Random Terms
Classification of Organisms
Population changes/limits
Food Webs
100
A relationship that occurs when a resource is desired by two or more individuals.
What is competition?
100
This is the term for a non-living factor that can effect an organism.
What is abiotic factor?
100
Organisms that consume only plant materials.
What is a herbivore?
100
The term for the number of species being born.
What is natality?
100
The Organism in the food web below that is an omnivore.
What is the Bird?
200
One species benefits and the other is harmed in this relationship.
What is parasitism?
200
This is what is known as a collection of several populations of all the species in a specific area.
What is a community?
200
Organisms in an ecosystem that produce their own food.
What is an autotroph? OR What is a producer?
200
Population growth that changes by the same amount.
What is linear growth?
200
The organism in the food web below that is a producer.
What is the Phytoplankton?
300
Both species benefit from this interaction.
What is mutualism?
300
Organisms in an ecosystem that feed on other organisms.
What is a heterotroph? OR What is a consumer?
300
An organism that consumes both plant and animal materials.
What is an Omnivore?
300
The number of species that move into an area?
What is immigration?
300
The amount of carnivores in the food web below.
What is five?
400
A relationship between predator and prey.
What is predation?
400
According the the energy pyramid, secondary consumers retain approximately what percentage of energy from producers?
What is 1%?
400
An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms, releasing the nutrients into the soil.
What is a decomposer?
400
The number of offspring that reach reproductive age.
What is capacity for survival?
400
What is an abiotic factor in the food web below?
What is sunlight?
500
One species benefits and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?
500
The maximum number of individuals of a species that can be supported indefinitely by an ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
500
A consumer that feeds on secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
The maximum number of offspring per birth?
What is birth potential?
500
The secondary consumer that is able to acquire 10% of the energy from producers, rather than only 1% (like the rest) in the food chain below.
What is the turtle?