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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Relationships
Energy in Living Things
Misc.
100
An organism that was born where it currently lives.
What is a native?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are plants, autotrophs, or producers?
100
When two or more organisms trying to use the same limited resources.
What is competition?
100
Organisms that use sunlight to make their own food are known as ____________.
What is the producers?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
200
A factor in an ecosystem that is or was once living.
What is an biotic factor?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200
The shrimp cleans the goby fish; and the goby fish provides food for the shrimp. Name the symbiotic relationship between these two organisms.
What is mutualism?
200
A consumer that eats both plants and meat is called a ________________.
What is an omnivore?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300
Anything in an environment that slows the growth of population or decreases it.
What is Limiting factor?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is secondary?
300
A good parasite never _____________ its host.
What is kills?
300
Name 2 decomposers.
What are earthworms, bacteria, and fungi?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
The total amount of organisms that an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
400
Energy flow in the ecosystem flows from what to what?
What is prey to predator?
400
True or false: A parasitic relationship can sometimes be good.
What is False?
400
True or false: A vegetarian human who never eats meat is a herbivore
What is false?
400
Name 2 limiting factors that prevents a population from growing larger than its carrying capacity.
What are food, water, space, and disease?
500
A factor in an environment that was never alive.
What is an abiotic factor?
500
Say you removed an eagle from a food chain consisting of an eagle, a rabbit, and grass. What would happen to the rabbit?
What is the rabbit population would increase?
500
A ______________ is a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is population?
500
These organisms make up the base of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
500
Give me a reason of why limiting factors would be a GOOD thing for an environment.
What is to prevent overpopulation?