Energy
Animals that eat ONLY plants are called_________
What are Herbivores/primary consumers?
In Tennessee, hummingbirds primarily get their food from the nectar of Red Stemmed Cardinals. The cardinals' pollen attaches to the hummingbirds while they feast and get carried to other flowers to help pollinate and reproduce. This is an example of which symbiotic relationship?
What is mutualism.
make a food chain with the following: chipmunk, snake, clover, owl
What is clover, chipmunk, snake, owl?
How much energy does each trophic level gain from the one before it?
What is 10%?
Which trophic level has the most energy?
What is the producer?
Which of the following organisms may have a competitive relationship with the African Lion?
A-Zebra
B-Cheetah
C-Vulture
D-Pumba
What is B-Cheetah.
Which type of symbiotic relationship makes a food web so much more complicated than a food chain?
What is competition?
All living things need food to give them_____________?
What is energy
Because Timone and Pumba consume both plants and grubs while also keeping an eye out for hungry predators, they are considered which trophic level on the energy pyramid?
What are secondary consumers?
While it's presence around the Christmas season is decorative, Mistletoe in its natural habitat will cling and grow on other plants such as host trees and draw water and nutrients from them. This is an example of what symbiotic relationship?
What is parasitism?
All food webs start with _____________
What are producers or plants?
Owls do not have any natural predators in Tennessee, but do compete with other consumers for their prey. What trophic level would the owl fall on?
What is a tertiary consumer?
In the popular Pixar film, Finding Nemo, Marlin (a clownfish) has an encounter with a great white shark named Bruce. One of Bruce's famous quotes is, "Fish are friends, not food". This is ironic because the relationship between Marlin and Bruce should be__________.
What is predator/prey or predation?
In a food web where owls and coyotes compete for rabbits as the primary food source, what would happen to the owl population if the coyote population suddenly increased?
What is the owl population would decrease?
In a marine ecosystem, the great white shark is considered a tertiary consumer. If the producers in that ecosystem begin with 100,000cal stored, what would be the calorie count for the shark?
What is 100cal?
If an antelope gains 10,000cal from the grass it consumes, how much will Simba get after consuming the antelope? #10%rule
What is 1,000cal?
Barnacles are a type of marine crustacean that will attach to large humpback whales. In this relationship, the whale is oblivious to the barnacles presence while the barnacles get a "free ride" and feed on the plankton scraps from the whale. What type of symbiotic relationship is this an example of?
What is commensalism?
In the beginning of the Pixar film Finding Nemo, the story begins with a barracuda eating Nemo's whole family resulting in the decrease of the clownfish population. If clownfish feed on plankton, what would happen to the plankton population if the clownfish decreased?
What is the plankton population would increase?
What do all of these living things have in common? deer, rabbit, squirrel
What is they are herbivores/primary consumers?