Symbiosis
What is Symbiosis?
Relationships between organisms that live in the same area.
What is Ecology?
Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms and their surroundings (non living).
What is a producer?
Producers are living things that create their own food.
What is an Energy Pyramid?
A graphical representation, showing the flow of energy at each trophic level in an ecosystem
What is the ultimate driver of all life on Earth?
The Sun
Give an example of a parasitic relationship.
Ticks, tapeworms, beetle on plants, etc.
What is an ecosystem?
A place where organisms live that include all living or nonliving things.
Are plants the ONLY producers, true or false?
False, some bacteria can also be producers.
In which direction does the energy flow in an Energy pyramid?
Up
Name any Biome.
(Any other)
What is a mutualistic relationship?
When both organisms benefit from the relationship.
What is a population?
a group of organisms that are the same species
Name the trophic level occupied by plants.
Primary Producers
Energy Pyramids can represent what food relationship model?
Food Chains
What do the arrows represent in a food chain/web?
The arrows show the MOVEMENT OF ENERGY between organisms.
Barnacles living on the sides of whales is an example of commensalism. True/False
True
What do you call a scientist that studies ecology?
You would call them a ecologist.
Photosynthesis is a process performed by what type of organism?
Plants
List all of the levels of an Energy Pyramid in order (bottom to top).
Primary Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, and Tertiary Consumers.
Which food relationship model have more energy? Food Chains or Food Webs?
Food Webs
What kind of relationship would clown fish and sea anemone be?
Mutualism
What is a community?
a group of interdependent organisms of different species growing or living together in a specified habitat
How do decomposers help the ecosystem?
Decomposers help the ecosystem by eating the dead plants and animals and they keep track of the flow of nutrients.
Going up the Energy Pyramid, how much energy is lost from each trophic level?
10%
Give the 3 examples of an Aquatic Ecosystem.
Freshwater: Lakes, Rivers, Ponds
Mixed: Estuaries
Saltwater: Oceans, Marshes, Swamps, Mangroves