Symbiosis
Classifying
Food Chain/Web
Trophic Levels
Vocabulary
100

The mosquito sucks the blood of humans, leaving a red bump and sometimes diseases.

What is Parasitism? 

100

A mushroom is a type of _______.

What is a Decomposer?

100

If you are in the park and see a bee taking nectar from a flower, what is the producer and what is the consumer?

What is the flower is the producer and the bee is the consumer? 

100

As energy moves up an energy pyramid, it…

What is Decreases? 
100

When one organism (predator) kills and eats the other organism (prey)

What is Predation?

200

The lynx preys on the hare population in Canada.

What is Predation? 

200

A lizard is a type of _____.

What is a Consumer/ Heterotroph?

200

A network of several interacting food chains.

What is a Food Web?

200

Where does the energy in trophic level 1 come from?

What is The Sun?

200

An organism that makes its own food.

What is a Producer/Autotroph? 

300

A cat gets shelter and food from its human, the human gets companionship and love from the cat. This is ....

What is Mutualism?

300

An angler fish is a type of ______.

What is a Consumer/Heterotroph?

300

In a food chain, the arrows always point to the one

What is "doing the eating"/the energy flow?

300

Name the Trophic levels in Order.

What is Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumer, and Tertiary Consumer?

300

If a species share a niche with another species, there is_____.

What is Competition?

400

The cattle egret follows the cow to eat its leftovers, the cow is not affected.

What is Commensalism?

400

A Worm is a type of _____.

What is a Decomposer? 

400

The arrows in a food chain or food web tell you the…

What is The Direction of Energy Flow?

400

energy is transferred from one level to the next; the rest is lost as heat

What is The 10% Rule?

400

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.

What is a Food Chain? 

500

Squirrels and rats needing the same food resources in the same place at the same time.

What is Competition? 

500

A coral is a type of ____.

What is a Producer/Autotroph and Consumer/Heterotroph?

500

______ is at the very end of a food chain.

What is a Decomposer? 

500

The removal of which group would cause an immediate decrease in the amount of energy flowing through a food web?

What is a Producer? 

500

The special role an organism has in the ecosystem (what it eats, where it lives, what species it interacts with, etc.)

What is a Niche?