Definitions & Meanings
Trophic Levels
Food Web VS Food Chain
What's the Relationship?
Random
100
Anything not living
What is abiotic?
100
Who are at the top of the energy pyramid?
Who are tertiary consumers?
100
Primary consumers are considered what kind of consumer?
What are herbivores?
100
A large praying mantis eats a hummingbird.
What is predation?
100
Provide the word for the following definition:
Large geographical area defined by climate.
What is biome?
200
A place where biotic factors interact with abiotic factors in a specific area
What is ecosystem?
200
Which kind of organism are not directly in the energy pyramid?
What are decomposers?
200
How do you read a food chain to know what eats what?
What is backwards?
200
Spanish moss hangs from trees, getting a place to grow without harming the tree.
What is commensalism (+, 0) ?
200
Name this interaction
Bacteria in the human stomach use some contents as food while provide the human with vitamin B and K
What is mutualism (+, +)?
300
A non-native organism (plant, or animal) that arrives
in a new place and causes harm to the environment.
What is an invasive species?
300
Which organism would be considered a secondary consumer?
What is a frog?
300
Where does ALL energy initially come from in order for a food chain or food web to function?
What is the sun?
300
Lice lives in hair of some humans and feeds on their blood.
What is parasitism (+, -) ?
300
What is the role of a decomposer?
What is to recycle energy back into the ecosystem by eating dead organisms?
400
An organism that makes its own food from the sun.
What is a producer?
400
Why are producers at the bottom of the energy pyramid?
What is they have most energy?
400
What is the difference between a food chain and food web?
What is a food web has many food chain?
400
Algae supplies fungus with nutrients, and gains protection in return.
What is mutualism (+, +)?
400
What is the order of energy transfer within a food chain?
What is producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer?
500
Organism’s position in a energy pyramid.
What is a trophic level?
500
How do we classify organisms?
What is based on how they obtain energy?
What is based on what the organism eats?
500
Name a possible tertiary consumer that lives in the ocean.
What is shark?
What is orca?
What is dolphin?
What is whale?
What is seal?
500
What do commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism have in common?
What is at least one organism in the relationship benefit?
500
Looking at the review sheet,
What would happen if the rabbit was removed from this ecosystem?
Provide two ways!
What is
Wild Cat & Jackal population would decrease (lost a food source).
Lion would slowly decrease because it's losing two food sources
Kite might slowly decrease because it lost a food source
The green plant might slowly increase because it's lost a primary consumer feeding on it
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