vocabulary
food web
key concepts
wild card
100
a group of the same type of organisms living in the same area
What is Population?
100
the arrow that points from the vole to the fox is telling us this
What is the way the energy flows? (that the fox eats the vole)
100
in order for a population to increase, there need to be more _____ than _____
What are more births than deaths?
100
animals use energy for reproduction and this
What is all other life processes? (running, eating, breathing)
200
all the living and non living things interacting in a particular area
What is an ecosystem?
200
when two populations use the same resource
What is competition?
200
in order for a population to decrease, there need to be more ____ than _____
What are more deaths than births?
200
these three things could lead to a population increase
What are increase in resource population, decrease in predators, decrease in competition
300
a population that makes its own food
What is a producer?
300
when the mouse population decreases and the owls have to eat more bunnies so the bunny population decreases
What is an indirect effect?
300
in order for a population to stay stable, this needs to happen
What is the number of births needs to be equal to the number of deaths?
300
these three things could lead to a decrease in population
what are decrease in resource population, increase in predators, increase in competition
400
a population that eats another population
What is a consumer?
400
Based on the food web below, this would happen to the sea start population.
What is increase?
400
organisms need these things in order to reproduce
What are energy storage molecules? (or resources)
400
the definition of a food web
What is a model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem?
500
the process of creating offspring
What is reproduction?
500
Based on the food web, what would happen if the spider population decreased?
What is the fly population would increase?
500
energy storage molecules are found here in nature
What is "in all organisms"?
500
these are three examples of food storage molecules
What are glucose, starch, and fat?