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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Community
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 photosynthesis.

What are producers?

100
A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.
What is a biome?
100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
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

Two or more different species living in the same place at the same time.

What is a community?

200

The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species dissappeared.

What is a keystone species?

200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

Plants, trees, bears, crows, grasshoppers

What is biotic factor?

300

The role of invasive species in an environment.

What is an invasive species that disrupts ecosystems by outcompeting native species for their niche?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

An organism that breaks down wastes and 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

Water, air, rocks, soil

What is examples of abiotic factors?

400

The most diverse biotic group on the planet.

What are insects?

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
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
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500

List all 6 ecological levels of organization.

What are individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere?

500

Give an example from each trophic level.

What are plants, grasshoppers, mice, owls?

500

Describe the correlation between predators and prey in an ecosystem, include a visual.

What is an increase in predation leads to a decrease in prey population, then a decrease in predator population leading to an increase in prey population. (Check Visual)