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Food Webs
Relationships
Biodiversity
Misc.
100
An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
100

When one animal is harmed by another, this is an example of 

parasitism

100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100

cess that describes how the structure of a biological community (that is, an interacting group of various species in a desert, forest, grassland, marine environment, and so on) changes over time.

What is ecological succession?

200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200

When two organisms occupy the same space in an ecosystem

What is a niche?

200

How do humans negatively impact biodiversity

What is pollution , habitat destruction, overfishing, or deforestation, chopping down trees?

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300

A relationship between two species in which both species benefits . A bird cleaning an alligator's teeth

What is mutualism?

300

An organism that eats an organism, also known as a secondary consumer

What is a carnivore?

300

When two organisms compete for the same food?

What is competition?

300
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down dead organisms

What is a decomposer?

400

This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.

What is an energy pyramid?

400

These type of organisms produce their own food

What is an autotroph?

400
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
What are living fossils?
400

The largest amount of a population that can be sustained.

What is carrying capacity

500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500

Does a food chain gain or lose energy as it goes from producer to consumer?

lose

500
List 3 of the 6 major biomes according to the reading in the textbook.
What are the rain forest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, or tundra?
500
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
500
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?