The the different types are Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism.
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
100
The Sun.
What is the source of energy for all food webs and food chains?
100
The top has less available energy and the bottom has more available energy.
What is the difference in the amount of energy between the top of the food web and the bottom of the food web?
100
Zebra mussels could feed easier and use the available space more efficiently.
What is What is an advantage zebra mussels had over clams?
200
Non-living, never lived
What is the meaning of abiotic?
200
Plover bird eat leeches off the gums of the crocodiles hide. The crocodile provides protection for the plover.
What is an example of mutualism?
200
Sun -----> grass -----> rabbit -----> wolf
What is an example of a food chain?
200
A 90% and 10% split.
What is the energy split between levels?
200
A fish with teeth.
What is What is a natural predator of zebra mussels?
300
Lack of oxygen.
What is the problem with the air
300
The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, obtains nutrients by drawing the blood of the cat. Fleas can be vectors of disease.
What is What is an example of parasitism?
300
See the white board.
What is an example of a food web?
300
10% of the energy.
What is the percentage of energy passed up to the next consumer?
300
The population would dramatically decrease if not go extinct sometimes.
What is What happened to our populations the next round after we had an over-population problem?
400
The Once-ler cut down every tree.
What is the reason why the factory closed?
400
The barnacle attaches to the whale and is transported through the ocean. The barnacle is a filter feeder and obtains its food as it rides on the whale. The whale is not affected.
What is an example of commensalism?
400
Nutrients would not be returned to the soil, plants would wither and die without these nutrients.
What is the result of removing decomposers from an ecosystem?
400
The amount of energy available for consumers gets less and less at each new level.
What is the reason we do not see food chains the consist of many consumers?
400
The amount of one species an ecosystem can support. (food, space, available energy)
What is carrying capacity?
500
The environment will not change unless somebody cares enough to change it.
What is the meaning of the rocks with the words "Unless"?
500
These three sets of symbols in order are ( + , + ), ( + , 0 ), and ( + , - ).
What are the + , - , 0 signs for the three types of symbiosis? (mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism)
500
It is the top of the food chain or food web, no other consumer from this organism.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
Food chains show a more complete energy transfer in an ecosystem.
What is a reason we use food webs instead of food chains?
500
The clams and zebra mussels were fighting over space and available food.
What is types of competition did we have in our experiments?