Eco. Changes
Biotic or abiotic factors that limit the number of individuals in a population.
What is a limiting factor?
A close relationship between two organisms in which one benefits.
What is Symbiosis?
This is a sequence of feeding relationships describing which organisms eat another.
What is a food chain?
This is created with all interconnecting food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
It's the position an organism occupies in a food chain. Each link in the chain represents one.
What is a trophic level?
The maximum number of organisms that can survive in an ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
Three main types of symbiotic relationships.
What are mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism?
This is the source of energy for food chains.
What is the sun?
A food web represents.
What are all of the connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat?
As organisms eat one another, this is transferred up the food chain.
What is energy?
Are one of the most violent and powerful types of weather. They consist of a very fast rotating column of air that usually forms a funnel cloud.
What is a Tornado?
What type of symbiosis? Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.
What is mutualism?
I am the beginning of all food chains.
What is a producer?
Where are humans on the food chain?
What are top carnivores?
As energy is moved from one trophic level to the next, this is the amount of energy that makes it to the next level?
What is 10%?
A large area of ground movement of rock, earth, or debris that fall, slides, or flows on slopes due to gravity.
What is a landslide?
In an ecological relationship, one species live in or on another organism and harms it.
What is parasitism?
This is the top consumer on any food chain because it is not hunted by any other organism.
Humans are mainly ___________ consumers because we eat lots of plants.
What is primary consumers?
Ecological pyramids are diagrams that represent each trophic level according to...
What is energy, biomass or population?
If wolves prey on deer for food, what will MOST LIKELY happen to the deer population if wolves are removed from an area where deer live?
What is the population of deer will increase?
An ecological relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not either helped or harmed.
What is commensalism?
These are the levels of consumers on a food chain.
What is primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary?
When humans eat animals, they are usually herbivores, so this makes us also ____________ consumers.
What is secondary consumers?
A graphic illustration that shows each trophic level and the amount of useable energy contained within
What is an energy pyramid?