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General Ecology
Symbiotic Relationships
Food Webs
Carbon Cycle
Miscellaneous
100

Community of interacting organisms and their environment. 

What is an ecosystem?
100

Interaction between two species where both benefit (ex. wildebeest and zebra traveling together)

What is mutualism?

100

In the following food chain, the ______ has the most available energy. 

Flower -> Butterfly -> Bird -> Hawk

What is flower?
100

Processes in the carbon cycle that STORES carbon.

What is photosynthesis? 

100

Ms. Bailey's favorite bird (if you don't know it's also the state bird of Massachusetts)

black capped chickadee

200
Something that restricts/slows the growth of a population. 
What is a limiting factor?
200

Interaction where one organism eats another (ex. deer eating grass)

What is predation?
200

Worms, bacteria, and fungi are all examples of...

What are decomposers?

200

Inputs of photosynthesis.

What are carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight?

200

Nonliving parts of an ecosystem. 

What are abiotic factors?

300

The maximum population size of a species an ecosystem can support. 

What is carrying capacity?

300

Interaction where one organism lives on and another and harms it (ex. tick on dog)

What is parasitism? 
300

Plants make their own food. They can best be described as...

What are producers?
300

Process(es) in the carbon cycle that RELEASE carbon.

What are cellular respiration, decomposition, and combustion?

300
Bison eat grass. Cattle and other small animals also eat grass. If bison were removed from this habitat, the other populations would..

Have more grass to eat and then their populations would increase and then they would run out of food. 

400

Living parts of an ecosystem. 

What are biotic factors?
400

Interaction where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected (ex. kori bustard eating bugs kicked up by wildebeest)

What is commensalism?

400

In a food web the arrows go from _______ to _______.

What are PREY and PREDATOR?

400
Burning fossil fuels is an example of this process. 

What is combustion?

400

A food chain is shown below: 

Flower -> Butterfly -> Bird -> Hawk

the hawk can best be described as a...

What is a tertiary consumer?

500

Species that influences the survival of other species in its ecosystem (Ex. wildebeest)

What is a keystone species?

500
Hawks and owls both eat rodents. Their relationship could best be described as... 

What is competition?

500

When predator eats a prey, only 10% of energy is transferred because...

What is some energy is lost as heat AND not all parts of organisms are eaten?

500

natural breakdown of dead organic matter (often by worms, bacteria, fungi)

What is decomposition?

500

math time: A producer has 50,000 kcal of stored energy. The tertiary consumer in a food pyramid would have ______ stored energy. 

What is 50 kcal?