The close relationship that exists when two or more species live together and benefit from each other
What is mutualism
100
Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
What is prey
100
What is the ultimate source of energy for the energy pyramid?
What is the sun (sun gives plants energy, plants give animals energy, etc)
100
An area where an organism lives
What is a habitat
100
Transpiration is ___________of water from the inside of leaves and plants to the atmosphere
What is evaporation
200
Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits by harming another organism
(tapeworms, lice, etc)
What is parasitism
200
Animal that hunts for its food
What is predator
200
Nonliving factors in an organism’s environment
What is abiotic
200
The role or position that an organism has in its environment
What is a niche
200
All food chains and food webs begin with...
What is producers (aka autotrophs/plants)
300
The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits from a close interaction and the other organism is unaffected
What is commensalism
300
Organisms that make their own food have two names
What is autotrophs and producers
300
What are the two biogeochemical cycles?
What is water and carbon
300
Living factors in an organism’s environment
What is biotic factors
300
Which biogeochemical process is least dependent on biotic factors?
What is water cycle (the water cycle does not involve animals and only partially needs plants) as compared to the carbon cycle which depends on plants and animals more than anything
400
This kind of consumer always eats the producer
What is primary consumer
400
Organisms that eat plants or other animals can be called two different names....
What is heterotrophs or consumers
400
Any organism that causes dead organisms to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil
What is a decomposer
400
Organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location at the same time make up a
What is population
400
What would happen to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere if decomposers were removed?
What is the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will decrease.
Decomposers release carbon into the atmosphere, so if they were removed less carbon would reach the atmosphere.
500
What is biomass?
What is total number of living matter
500
How is energy transferred as you move up the pyramid/across the food chain?
What is as you move up the pyramid energy is lost as heat and the animals at the top get less energy
500
Which process is involved in the cycling of carbon within an environment?
What is photosynthesis and respiration
500
Place the following in order from the most energy obtained to the least energy obtained
primary consumer, secondary consumer, producer, tertiary consumer
What is producer, primary consumer , secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
500
The exchange of matter throughout the biosphere is called
What is biogeochemical cycle aka carbon and water cycles