Symbiotic Relationships
Two organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
Why does only a small portion of energy that passes through a trophic level get stored in the bodies of the organisms at the next level?
What is lose energy due to heat?
An animal that feeds on flesh.
What is carnivore?
The foundation of the food web begins with the
What is producers?
A geographic area where plants and animals interact with each other and the environment.
What is ecosystem?
One organism benefits, the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
What happens to the number of organisms as we move to the next trophic levels?
An animal that feeds on plants.
What is herbivore?
The grasshopper eats the grass. The grasshopper is the
What is primary consumer?
The maximum population size an area with limited resources can handle without destroying the environment.
What is carrying capacity?
One organism benefits, the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
This type of organism is not found on a trophic level.
An animal that feeds on both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
A primary producer makes its own food. This means it is...
What is an autotroph?
All the biotic factors in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
What is ammensalism?
Hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, made up of organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy.
What is trophic levels?
An individual living thing like a plant or animal.
What is an organism?
Where energy goes depends on what?
What is the direction the arrow is pointing towards?
All members of the same species in an area.
What is population?
What is interspecific competition?
If producers get 100,000 kJ then how much do primary consumers get of this energy?
The role an animal has in an ecosystem
What is niche?
A food web is referred to a web instead of a food chain because...
What is organisms eat numerous foods?
What is predation?