Vocabulary
These are animals that only eat plants.
What is a herbivore?
This is the broadest level of classification. (hint: only 3 members)
What is domain?
This is an ecosystem in which a fish would live in.
What is a marine or freshwater ecosystem?
The amount of energy that moves up the levels on the energy pyramid.
10%
This is the organism which a parasite lives on or in and derives nutrients from.
What is a host?
These are animals that eat only meat.
What is a carnivore.
This is the most specific level of classification.
What is a species?
This is the ecosystem in which an alligator would live.
What is a fresh water ecosytem?
The organisms on the energy pyramid where the energy is the lowest.
What is Tertiary Consumers?
Both species are benefitted in this symbiotic relationship (+ +)
What is a mutualism?
These are animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What is a omnivore?
Where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
This is an ecosystem in salt water and where algae and plankton are producers.
What is a marine ecosystem?
The organisms on the energy pyramid where the energy is the highest.
What are producers?
One species benefits while the other species is largely unaffected in this symbiotic relationship. (+ 0)
What is commensalism?
These are organisms that break down dead stuff.
What is a decomposer?
True or False: A community is smaller than a population.
What is false?
This is an ecosystem on land. (hint: this ecosystem starts with a T)
What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
True or false? Secondary Consumers get more energy than producers.
What is false?
One species benefits while the other species is harmed in this symbiotic relationship. (+ -)
What is parasitism?
A community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This is the correct order of levels of organism classification.
Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, Genus, species
This is an ecosystem composed of rivers, streams, groundwater, lakes and ponds.
What is a fresh water ecosystem?
This is the order of the energy flow in a community from highest to lowest.
What are producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers?
Flowers and bees form this type of symbiotic relationship
What is a mutualism?
A network of food chains by which energy and nutrients are passed on through organism to organism.
Food web
An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
A group of individuals of the same species inhabiting the same area
What is a population?
Three types of ecosystems.
Terrestrial, fresh water, and marine
Remora travel with sharks and eat the scraps that escape the shark's mouth. The shark is unaffected by the presence of the remora. Which type of symbiosis is represented?
What is commensalism?