Symbiotic Relationships
A lion eats a gazelle
What is predation?
I can make my own food?
What is a producer?
How many arrows are drawn to every organism on a food web?
What is 2 (1 energy and and 1 for matter)
Where does all energy on the planet originate?
What is the sun?
I am always causing harm to the environment.
What is an invasive species?
A bird makes a nest in a tree
What is commensalism?
The term for an organism that is eaten.
What is a prey?
I help to show what everything is on a food web.
What is a key or legend.
A model that shows the flow of energy.
What is an energy pyramid
We can not predict what effect I will have on an ecosystem.
Double points if you can come up with all three terms.
What is an introduced species / exotic species / non-native species?
A flea sucks the blood from a dog
What is parasitism
The term for what eats another organism
Double points (what is a second/ different term that can be used)
What is a predator / consumer?
Everything in the ends will wind up here on a food web.
What is a decomposer?
Who would be found at the top of the energy pyramid.
What is the apex predator?
Anything that makes the habitat better will do this to the population.
Double points (provide an example)
What is increase population?
A hyena and a lion both eat gazelle
What is competition?
A creature that nothing else preys on.
What is an apex predator?
I will be the first thing to return in an ecosystem. Double points (explain why)
What is a producers?
They only need sunlight added to make their own food.
Producers, consumers, or decomposers. I am the one that does not transfer energy back to the cycle.
What is decomposer?
The two types of factors in an ecosystem.
What is biotic and abiotic?
Bacteria living in the stomach of termites.
What is mutualism?
What helps return all matter back to the cycle?
What is decomposers.
Grasses make their own food, insects eat the grass, voles eat the insects, owls eat the voles, great horned owl eats the small owl. I am the specific term for the owl.
What is a tertiary consumer?
The amount of energy that transfers at every step of the food pyramid / food web.
what is 10%
The term that refers to all the living organism and non living factors in an environment.
What is ecosystem?