Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Ecological Relationships
Food Webs
WILD CARDS
100
The science that studies the interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
100
An animal that does not produce its own food, so it get nutrients by eating plants and other animals
What is a consumer?
100
Two or more organisms fighting for the same limited resources. What is the relationship?
What is competition.
100
What type of organism is the 3rd consumer?
What is Tertiary?
100
The plainfin midshipman is source of food for the sea cucumber and kelp bass. When there are more than one organism hunting for the same food, we call this..
What is competition?
200
This consists of all the organisms in a particular region, along with nonliving components.
What is an ecosystem?
200
An organism that is able to make its own energy.
What is a producer?
200
Both organisms in the relationship are benefiting from each other. What is the relationship?
What is Mutualism?
200
The arrows in a food web represent..?
What is the flow of energy?
200
What percent of the earth's water is drinkable?
a. 4.5%
b. 7.5%
c. 2.5%
d. 1.5%
D. 1.5%
300
What is an introduced species?
Species brought into regions by human actions either intentionally or unintentionally.
300
Abiotic factors that can impact an ecosystem.
What are disruptions?
300
One animal hunts and kills another for food. What is the relationship?
What is predation? What is predator-prey?
300
What is the correct order energy will move through a fresh water food web? Use the following...Snail, human, algae, catfish
algae -> snail -> catfish -> human
300
Create a food chain that reaches a Tertiary Consumer.
Answers may vary.
400
The location in an ecosystem where an organism lives.
i.e. nest in a tree
What is a habitat?
400
A path of energy as one organism eats another
What is a food chain?
400
Lampreys attach to fish with their suction mouth and teeth, and use their tongue to rasp through a fish's scales and skin so they can feed on its blood and body fluids. What is the relationship?
What is parasitism?
400
As energy is moving throughout an ecosystem, what percent of stored energy is being passed to the next organism?
What is 10%?
400
How many trees are cut down each day?
Answer must be between 15,000- 35,000
Whichever team gets the closest gets the points!
What is 27,000?
500
What is Biodiversity?
the variety of life at every level
500
Factors that can be used or consumed by organisms
What is a Resource?
500
By attaching itself to the shark, Remora are able to ride along sharks backs to travel without using its own energy. The shark is unaffected by the presence of the remora. What is the relationship?
What is commensalism?
500
Why might an organism have more than one arrow pointed at it in a food web?
Answer may vary.
500
If you weighed all living people on earth, and all the ants on earth, which one would weigh more?
What are ants?
600
A model of feeding relationships in an ecosystem...
What is a Food Web?
600
An organism that only eats producers in an food web is a ___________ ____________.
What is a primary consumer?
600
Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that eat parasites off of impalas. The impala gets rid of the annoying parasite and the red-billed oxpecker gets a meal. What is the relationship?
What is Mutualism?
600
In this food web, who are the secondary consumers?
What are frogs, snakes, lady bug, fox?
600
Which ecosystem contains the most species on earth? Must be regionally specific.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?