Photosynthesis
Roles
Relationships
Food Chains/Webs
100
What is the process of photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is the process of plants making their own food.
100
Makes their own food through the process of photosynthesis
Producers
100
a relationship where both organisms are helped
Mutualism
100
Where do all organisms get their energy?
From the sun
200
3 Things needed for a photosynthesis
Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
200
Consumes (eats) other organisms in order to get energy.
Consumers
200
A relationship where 1 organism is helped and another is harmed
Parasitism
200
All food chains begin with what type of organism?
Producers
300
Where the plants gets water
Through the roots
300
Breaks down matter in dead organism and puts the nutrients back into the soil
Decomposers
300
A relationship where 1 organism is helped and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Commensalism
300
The arrows on a food chain represent what?
Flow of energy
400
Where does a plant get the carbon dioxide that it needs?
Animals breathe out carbon dioxide into the air. The carbon dioxide enters the plants through holes in the leaves called stomata.
400
List the 4 types of consumers AND give a brief description of each.
Herbivore - eats only plants
Carnivore - eats only meat (other animals)
Omnivore - eats both plants and animals
Scavengers - eats dead or dying organisms
400
Oxpeckers are a type of small bird that land on zebras and eat ticks and other parasites that live on zebra's skin. The oxpeckers get food and the zebras get pest control.
What type of sybiosis is this an example of?
Mutualism.
The oxpeckers are helped (get food) and the zebras are helped (get pest control)
400
How is a food chain and a food web alike and different.
Both food chains and food webs show the flow of energy in an ecosystem. Food chains show one path of energy. Food webs show multiple paths of energy.
500
What 2 things do plants manufacture (make) during photosynthesis?
Sugar that they keep as food, and oxygen that they release back into the air.
500
What role would a WOLF have in an ecosystem?
A wolf is a carnivore. It eats only meat.
500
Spider crabs live in shallow areas of the ocean floor, and greenish-brown algae lives on the crabs' backs, making the crabs blend in with their environment, and unnoticeable to predators.
What type of symbiosis is this an example of?
Commensalism.
The crab is helped. The algae is neither helped nor harmed.
500
Describe the role of each organism in each of these food chains.
corn (producer) - mouse (herbivore/primary consumer) - owl (carnivore/secondary consumer)
carrott (producer) - rabbit (herbivore/primary consumer) - fox (carnivore/secondary consumer) - lion (carnivore/tertiary consumer/apex predator)
grass (producer) - grasshopper (herbivore/primary consumer) - frog (omnivore/secondary consumer) - snake (carnivore/tertiary consumer) - hawk (carnivore/apex predator)