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Food Chains/Webs
Ecological Relationships/Symbiosis
Population Dynamics
Hierarchy of Life/Kingdoms
Characteristics of Life
100
An organism that "self-feeds" or produces its own energy from sunlight?
What is an autotroph OR producer.
100
A rabbit being chased by a coyote, caught, and consumed.
What is predation?
100
The process of organisms moving INTO a population.
What is immigration?
100
All living things are composed of and made from...?
What are cells?
100
Types of reproduction.
What is asexual and sexual reproduction.
200
Consists of multiple food chains together, showing the possible directions that energy can travel based on the diet of various organisms.
What is a food web?
200
Two or more organisms fighting over space, mates, or resources.
What is competition?
200
The process in which organisms LEAVE a population.
What is emigration?
200
Cells from this kingdom contain chlorophyll, and their cell walls also contain cellulose.
What is the kingdom Plantae?
200
Cell division and cell enlargement are two examples of this.
What is growth?
300
Trophic levels responsible for the recycling of nutrients within an ecosystem.
What are producers and decomposers?
300
The bacteria in the gut of the termite breakdown and feed on some of the cellulose taken in by the termite. The termite would be unable to digest cellulose without these bacteria and they gain an additional source of nutrition from the surplus digested cellulose.
What is mutualism?
300
A population's growth rate is determined by considered four factors...
What are birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration?
300
Organisms, like mushrooms, that have a cell wall containing chitin, and are primarily decomposers in their ecosystem.
What is Fungi?
300
An unexpected, loud noise from behind causes you to jump. The noise is considered a ______ and you jumping is considered a ______.
What is a stimulus and response?
400
Two names given to organisms that eat both producers and primary consumers.
What is an omnivore and a secondary consumer?
400
The flea feeds on blood from the dog. There is no benefit to the dog and the itching and bites may lead to an infection.
What is parasitism?
400
Another term for birth rate.
What is natality rate?
400
Small, microscopic organisms that primarily like in aquatic environments. Include species of algae and diatom.
What is the kingdom Protista?
400
Traits that benefit an organism in its surroundings.
What are adaptations?
500
Why do we use a pyramid to discuss an ecosystem's energy and population?
We use it because as we go from the bottom upward population sizes decrease, and because energy availability also decreases too.
500
The Remora fish swim alongside the shark and take scraps of food that the shark drops during feeding. The shark does not eat the Remora and appears unaffected by its presence.
What is commensalism?
500
A population starts out with 52 individuals. 18 are born, 13 die, 25 emigrate from the population, and 19 immigrant into the population. What is the population's size now? Did the population increase or decrease?
What is 51 individuals and a decrease in population size.
500
Which four kingdoms contain organisms whose cells have a cell wall?
What are Plantae, Fungi, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria?
500
Organisms need to obtain this from sunlight or by consuming another organism. It's used for individual growth, bodily maintenance, and repair.
What is energy?