Relationships
Two squirrels fighting over the last batch of acorns
What is competition?
What is the tropical rain forest?
The maximum number of a population that a given area can hold
What is carrying capacity?
All energy starts from the
What is the Sun?
A tick would be this type of organism if it is hurting a dog by sucking its blood
What is a parasite?
A bird building a nest on a tree limb
What is commensalism?
The biome we live in
What is the temperate deciduous forest?
Anything, such as food or shelter, that prevents a population from uncontrollable growth
What is limiting factor?
Another name for a top consumer in a food web, this animal is the "king" of the ecosystem?
What is a tertiary consumer?
A flood or forest fire would change competition levels an ecosystem by increasing or decreasing it?
What is increasing?
Mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism are all examples of this type of relationship
What is symbiosis?
The biome found underneath the Arctic tundra that covers Canada and the Northern-most USA.
A connection of food chains with many energy paths
What is a food web?
All plants (autotrophs) are considered this
What are producers?
A relationship where both organisms benefit: such as a bee pollinating nearby flowers
What is mutualism?
A fox hunting and preying on deer
What is predation?
Any water based biome
What is aquatic?
Any organisms that produces its own food through photosynthesis
What is an autotroph?
A herbivore inside of an ecosystem would also be classified as this type of consumer
What is a primary consumer?
This type of relationship: a tiger hunting, killing, and eating an elephant
What is predation?
A group of vultures eating the remains of a dead organism and bellowing loudly to attract a coyote to join
What is cooperation?
Found in both the North and South Pole - known for permafrost
What is the tundra?
An organism that consumes both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
All organisms of an ecosystem would end with this consuming them
What are decomposers?
An organism that must feed off of other organisms for energy
What is a heterotroph?