Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
Any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater.
What is a herbivore?
Any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Birds will eat ticks and parasites of a hippos back. Name the symbiotic relationship.
What is a mutualism
In which biome would one find about 50% of the entire worlds biodiversity?
What is Tropical Rainforest?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
An organism that eats other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
The flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
1 or more of the same type of organism in a certain area.
What is a species?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an compete?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
Bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, and sow bugs are examples of these.
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
The relationship between an animal that gets eaten and the animals that eats it.
What is predation. (Predator-prey)
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
What would happen to the deer population in a Forrest ecosystem if they were to lose some of their predators and how would this affect the rest of the ecosystem?
What is the deer population would increase. This would cause a lower population of producers and and overpopulation of deer. This in turn could cause disease to spread amongst the deer.
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
What type of consumers can be found in a food chain as a Primary Consumer?
What is a herbivore and omnivore.
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
An association between two different species where one benefits and the other is harmed....
What is Parasitism?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
What are the organizational levels of an ecosystem?
The study of how organisms interact with each other, how they are affected by their environment and how they, in turn, affect the environment that they live in.
1) Organism
2) Species
3) Population
4) Community
5) Ecosystem
6) Biomes
This is shown by the arrows in a food chain.
What is transfer of energy?
An insect lays its eggs on the back of a fish and the fish’s scales become irritated. Name the symbiotic relationship?
An association between two different species where one species enjoys a benefit, and the other is not significantly affected. Provide an example
What is commensalism? The cattle egret benefits when insects are flushed out of the vegetation while the herbivore is unaffected by the presence of the cattle egret.
For an animal to settle in a habitat, these things must be accessible to the animal.
What is food, Water, and Shelter?