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Trophic Levels
Symbiotic Relations
Know Your Ecosystem
The Sun's Energy
The Food Web
100
I make my own food, with sunlight energy.
What is a producer?
100
In this relationship between 2 species, both species benefit by hanging out together.
What is mutualism?
100
The same type of organism, living in the same area, at the same time.
What is a population?
100
The primary energy source for all living things.
What is the sun?
100
The organism which hunts.
What is a predator?
200
I'm known as an omnivore, which means I can eat plants or animals.
What is a tertiary consumer?
200
In this relationship, one organism is clearly benefiting, while the other organism is being harmed.
What is parasitism?
200
A community of organisms and their non-living environment.
What is an ecosystem?
200
The products of photosynthesis in producers.
What is sugar and oxygen?
200
In a food web, the arrow always points this direction.
What is toward the organism receiving the energy?
300
I eat only plants, and I'm known as a primary consumer.
What is an herbivore?
300
When one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
300
All of the populations of different species that live and interact in an area.
What is a community?
300
In addition to sunlight, the starting materials for photosynthesis in plants.
What is carbon dioxide and water?
300
If an ecosystem is to remain healthy, this relationship of "the hunter and hunted" must remain in balance.
What is predator-prey?
400
I am a carnivore, which means I eat primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
400
A clown-fish and sea anemone exibit this relationship because by hanging-out together, both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
400
The part of the earth where life exists; made up of the many different ecosystems of the planet.
What is the biosphere?
400
The way producers get their food to survive.
What is use the sun's energy to do photosynthesis?
400
Most of the energy in the food web energy pyramid is located here.
What is the base?
500
As a producer (a plant), I make glucose and oxygen by starting with sunlight energy and combining these other two very important materials.
What is carbon dioxide and water?
500
A tick which feeds on a dog's blood is an example of this relationship.
What is parasitism?
500
All of the non-living parts, or features of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
500
The organelle in producers that contains chlorophyll, which allows plants to do photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
500
An organism which breaks down and releases energy from other dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?