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Parts of an Ecosystem
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Predator/Prey Relationships
True and False
Fill-in-the-blank
100
This happens during the water cycle when water becomes heated and turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
This is the source of all the energy on earth.
What is the earth?
100
This is the term used to describe the fight for limited resources in an ecosystem
What is competition?
100
A tapeworm inside an organisms intestines is an example of mutualism?
What is False? (parasitism)
100
In a forest ecosystem there are rabbits and plants. The plants represent the __________.
What are producers?
200
This is what of group of woodchucks that live in a forest together is called.
What is a population.
200
This is the level consumer that all herbivores are.
What is a primary level consumer?
200
This is the term that is used to describe when all the animals fill a specific role to help ensure the survival of the species.
What is cooperation?
200
When the sun is covered by clouds for an extended period of time, the effect on plant population size is that it increases.
What is false? (decreases)
200
In a forest ecosystem, water is an _______ factor that helps the rabbits to survive.
What is an abiotic factor?
300
This is what all the living organisms that live in the same forest together is called.
What is a community?
300
This is what you call an organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
300
A population of lions begins to die off. This is what we would expect would happen to the population of gazelles in that same area?
What is increase?
300
The first level in an energy pyramid is the primary consumers.
What is false? (producers)
300
If the coyote population in the forest decreases, then the rabbit population will _________ in size?
What is increase?
400
This is what everything that is around one single organism is called.
What is an environment?
400
This is an organism that helps breakdown decaying plant material and dead animals into nutrients that can be returned to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is the term used to describe when two different species live together.
What is symbiosis?
400
A plant that produces (gives off) water vapor is called transpiration.
What is true?
400
A crow feeds on the dead carcass (body) of a opposum. The crow is a ___________.
What is a scavenger?
500
This is what you call the same organisms that can produce similar offspring is called.
What is a species?
500
This type of organism will eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
500
This is the term that is used to describe when a bull has blue-tailed warbler that rides around on the its back.
What is commensalism?
500
An animal the breathes out carbon dioxide gas is an example of exhalation.
What is true?
500
A vine climbs up a tree and absorbs water that the tree needs to grow. A hydrangea vine grows higher up a tree to get more sunlight without hurting the tree. These are examples of __________ and _________ types of symbiosis.
What is parasitism and commensalism.