Vocabulary
Energy Pyramids
Food Chains/Food Webs
Symbiotic Relationships
Random
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All living factors in an ecosystem
What are biotic factors
1000
What organism(s) represent the largest trophic level?
What are grass and shrubs
1000
What do the arrows in a food chain or web represent
Arrows represent how the energy is being transferred (who is eating who)
1000
A symbiotic relationship that involves species having to fight for something they both need or want
What is competition
1000
What is the difference between a community and an ecosystem?
An ecosystem contains abiotic and biotic factors, a community only contains biotic factors
1200
All of the living things interacting with the nonliving aspects of the environment
What is an ecosystem
1200
In an energy pyramid what is the proper name for ANY organism above the producer level.
What is a consumer
1200
Name a predator-prey relationship
coyote - rabbit
spider - insect
hawks - seed eating birds
1200
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the detriment of the spruce tree. What type of relationship is this?
Parasitism
1200
These control population growth
Limiting factors
1400
A place where a plant or animal lives
What is a habitat
1400
What might happen if you remove a primary consumer (what eats the producer) from an ecosystem?
The number of plants would increase
1400
An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts
What is a decomposer
1400
When a mosquito bites you, you are the ________, and the mosquito is the ________
Host; parasite
1400
Two humans fighting over shelter while stranded in a blizzard would be an example of which type of competition.
Intraspecific competition
1600
Interacting populations of various kinds of individuals or species in a common location
What is a community
1600
Where do producers get their energy from?
What is the sun
1600
What might happen to the rabbit, insect, and seed-eating birds if grasses and shrubs were removed from the ecosystem?
The herbivore population would decrease
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The maximum amount of organisms that can survive in an ecosystem
Carrying capacity
1600
Woodpeckers and squirrels competing for nesting rights for holes in the same tree. This would be an example of what?
Interspecific competition
2000
Rocks, water, and sunlight are examples of this type of factor.
What is an abiotic factor
2000
What would happen to the population of predators if the population of prey increased
Predator population would increase
2000
Chemical is released during decomposition
What is carbon
2000
Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. This is an example of what type of relationship
Mutualism
2000
The draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure
Runoff