Symbiosis
This relationship benefits both organisms.
What is mutualism?
This organism makes its own food.
What is an autotroph?
Which part of the energy pyramid has the highest amount of energy?
What is producers.
Where does all energy originate from?
What is The Sun
True or False
A food chain can have multiple consumers?
True
This relationship has a host and a parasite.
What is parasitism?
This organism cannot make its own energy and must obtain energy food from other food sources.
What is a heterotroph?
When you move up the pyramid energy goes...
DOWN
These organisms only eat producers
What is "Primary Consumers"
True or False
Frogs can be both producers and consumers
False
Tree frogs use trees as protection from predators. What symbiotic relationship does this describe?
What is commensalism?
What is the difference between a consumer and a producer?
A consumer can make its own food and a consumer must consume other organisms for energy.
Which level of the energy pyramid consumes producers?
What is Primary Consumers?
Grass-->grasshopper-->bird--->snake--->owl
Which organism is a secondary consumer?
What is a bird?
Why do all arrows at the end of a food web point to a decomposer?
Because that decomposer is responsible for breaking down and recycling all dead matter/organisms
Bed bugs are near-invisible insects feed on human blood through a sharp proboscis they sink into any exposed skin. Which relationship does this describe?
What is parasitism?
What is the difference between herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
herbivore=plants only
carnivore=meat only
omnivore=both plants and animals
Which level of the energy pyramid consumes secondary consumers?
What is tertiary consumers?
Grass-->grasshopper-->bird--->snake--->owl
Which organism is a tertiary consumer?
What is the snake?
How would an ecosystem be affected if all decomposers disappeared?
The ecosystem would be filled with dead organisms piling up everywhere and the plants would not have the nutrients they need.
Woolly bats are known to roost in Nepenthes hemsleyana, a tropical pitcher plant found in Borneo.
While the bat gets a hidey-hole to rest in, the plant benefits by catching the guano (faeces) that the little mammal produces. This provides the plant with the nutrients it needs to survive.
What relationship does this describe?
What is mutualism?
Give three examples of scavengers.
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Looking at the following organisms
seal, fish, penguin, killer whale, plankton
Which organism is the apex predator?
Killer Whale
Grass-->grasshopper-->bird--->snake--->owl
Which organism would have the GREATEST impact if removed from the food chain?
What is grass?
Draw a food web with at least 12 different organisms and their flow of energy.
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