Ecosystems
Organisms
You are what you Eat!
Food Chains
Interactions of Living Things
100

Give an example of a Biotic factor in a Biome.

Answer:Anything Living

100

What is a single living thing called?

Organism

100

 _________ get their energy from the SUN. They make their own food

Producers

100

Where do all food chains start?

The Sun!

100

Predation: interaction where one organism (predator) kills another organism for food (prey)


Give an example of a predator/prey relationship. 

Lion/ Antelope


Great White Shark/Seal

Eagle/Mouse

200

Give an example of an Abiotic factor in a biome. 

Anything that is Nonliving: Sun, Clouds, Water, River.
200

Population: A group of interbreeding organisms (__________) living in the same area

Species

200

What is the process that Producers do to make their food?

Photosynthesis

200

Primary (1st) Consumer:  eats producers/plants and can be an

         Herbivore          OR           Omnivore


Give an example.

Grasshopper

Mouse


200

Competition: struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited __________.

Resources


300

All Organisms are made of _________.

Cells

300

What would you find in a community?

Example: Pond in a Park

 All the frogs, insects, reptiles, birds, plants, mushrooms, bacteria, protists, mammals & fish living in the pond

300

__________ Eats leftovers

__________ Breaks down decaying material


Need to get both right!

Scavenger


Decomposer


300

Secondary (2nd) Consumer: a carnivore or omnivore eats the primary consumer. 

Give an Example

Mouse


Snake


300

There are three types of symbiotic relationships:

Mutualism (+,+): relationship where both species benefit


Give an example of a mutualistic relationship. 

Clownfish and Sea Anemone

Clownfish & Sea Anemone

Buffalo and Tickbird

Bumblebee and Flowers

400

What does the prefix "bio" Mean? (Biology is the study of _____)

Life

400

All Living things need three things to survive. What are they?

Food, Water, and Shelter
400

Consumers/Heterotrophs get their food from other sources. What are the three types of Consumers?

Herbivores

Carnivores

Omnivores

400

Tertiary (3rd) Consumer: eats primary or secondary consumers. 

Called the “top of the food chain”

Name an Apex Predator. 

Falcon


Great White Shark

Lion

400

Commensalism (+,0):  relationship where one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed


Give an Example. 

Elephant and Egret

Shark and Rembra

500

The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.


500

Put the levels of organization for an organism in order.


Tissue, Organ System, Organ, Organism, Cell

Cell, Tissue, Organ , Organ System, Organism


500

Give an example of a Carnivore, Herbivore, and Omnivore. 


Must give an example of all three

Carnivore: Lion


Herbivore: Giraffe


Omnivore: Humans, Bears


500

Give an example of a food chain in your Biome.

Answers may Vary


500

Parasitism (+,-):  relationship where one species benefits (parasite) while the other is harmed (host)

Give an Example.

Ticks & Mammals

Mosquitoes & Mammals