Eating Habits
Chains and Webs
Know your place
Symbiotic Relationships
Vocabulary
100
What do Decomposers eat?
Decomposers eat dead plants and animals
100
This kind of organism is always the first level of a food chain.
What is a producer
100
Owls eat mice, moles and birds. If you got rid of all the owls, what would happen to the populations of mice, moles and birds?
The populations of mice, moles and birds would go up.
100
Name the three different types of symbiotic relationships
What are Mutualism, Commensalism, parasitism
100
This troph makes its own food using the light of the sun
What is an autotroph
200
This kind or organism has to eat to live
What is a consumer, or a heterotroph
200
If we describe a food chain as 'levels' what is the level one step up from a producer?
What is 1st level consumer.
200
In an ecosystem with grass and plants, mice, snakes and owls, what would happen if all the grass and plants died
All the other organisms would die.
200
Your dog gets a tick on it and the tick sucks the dogs blood. What kind of relationship is this?
It's parasitism because the tick benefits, but the dog is harmed
200
This is a consumer that only eats other animals
What is a carnivore
300
How does an autotroph get its food?
Makes its food from light energy
300
A food web is made of many of these
What is food chains
300

Owls are the top predator. Below them are mice, rabbits and birds. Below them are insects. Below them are plants. If you got rid of all the owls, what what would happen to the the number of insects?

Insects would decrease.

300
A cowbird is on top of a cow. Its eating the bugs on the cow. What kind of relationship is this?
What is Mutalistic. The bird gets food and the cow gets pest control
300
We are glad that these organisms eat dead things and break them down into nutrients
What are decomposers
400
This kind of organisms probably likes salads
What is an herbivore
400

As you go up the food chain or food web, the amount of energy in each level does this.

What is energy they get from the previous level to live and grow.

400
A spider makes a web in a gazelles antlers. What kind of relationship is that?
What is commensalism?
400
What is another term for the word consumer?
What is heterotroph
500
This kind of organism would like a salad as an appetizer before its steak is served
What is an omnivore
500
the second level of a food web or food chain always contains this type of organism
What is an herbivore
500
Give two examples of a mutalistic relationship
What is clown fish and anemone, cow bird and cow, Bird and alligator
500
What kind of eaters are humans?
What is an omnivore