A living thing that gets its energy by consuming other organisms.
What is a heterotroph/consumer?
100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants?
100
A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
What is a population?
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
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is the ecosystem?
200
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem's food web. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species disappeared.
What are 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
All the populations that live and interact with each other.
What is a community?
300
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
300
An age structure diagram includes these three factors.
What are age categories, population and gender?
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
A region of Earth that has a particular climate and certain types of plants.
What is a biome?
400
The cause for why coral reefs are dying.
What is ocean acidification?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500
When organisms leave a certain area, the movement is called ___.
What is emigration?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
List the levels of organizations, from smallest to biggest.
What is individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere?
500
The best way to control the population of invasive species...
What is understanding their breeding patterns and strategically targeting the species?
500
Population growth is calculated by this formula.
What is (Birth rate + Immigration) – (Death rate + Emigration)?