All living things need this abiotic factor for cells and for life processes
What is water
100
This level of organization includes any part of the earth that can support life
What is the biosphere
100
This is the place an organism lives and carries out day to day activities
habitat
100
An owl hunts, kills, and feeds on mice. An owl would be considered a ____________
What is a predator
100
The simplest way of showing how energy passes from one organism to another
What is a food chain
200
These are all the living or once-living factors in the environment
What are biotic factors?
200
This is just one individual
What is an organism
200
These organisms have the most available energy
producers
200
Ticks feed on deer blood to the deer’s detriment. This relationship would be ________________
What is parasitism
200
This is an accurate way of showing relationships and energy transfer in communities
What is a food web
300
Food is this type of factor
What is biotic
300
This level includes communites and abiotic factors that affect them
What is an ecosystem
300
This is the role of an organism in its ecosystem
niche
300
Hermit crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails. This is _________________
What is commensalism
300
This model compares the energy available at each level of a food chain
What is an energy pyramid
400
This abiotic factor determines where photosynthetic plants and bacteria can live
What is sunlight
400
A herd of buffalo living on a plain would be this level
What is a population
400
I eat both plants and animals
omnivore
400
Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds. Both species benefit. This is _____________________
What is mutualism
400
This model shows the number of organisms at each level of a food chain
What is an ecological pyramid
500
This abiotic factor is a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide
What is air
500
Tropical rainforest and tundra are examples of this
What is a biome
500
maggots, worms, and mushrooms are examples of these
decomposers
500
What frog eats and how it gets its food
What is a niche
500
This much energy (in percent) is available to a tertiary consumer after it has passed through the other levels