Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
Arrows
What shows the direction that energy travels in a food chain/food web?
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
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?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
An interacting group of various species in a common location
What is a community?
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species disappeared.
What is a keystone species?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary or quaternary?
A group of individuals of the same species inhabiting the same area.
What is a population?
List two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
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?
The sun.
What is the source of energy in a food web/food chain?
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
What are living fossils?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
The way that the energy travels in a food chain.
What is from prey to predator? (what is being eaten to what is eating it)
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?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?