1.) I eat both plants and animals. What am I called?
What is an omnivore?
100
DAILY DOUBLE! 29.) The interaction between you and the escherichia coli that live in your intestine and help break down food is an example of which type of interaction?
What is mutualism?
100
3.) What is carrying capacity?
What is the largest population an area can support?
100
11.) Producers release this in photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
100
23.) Contains many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
200
2.) What are herbivores? Give two examples.
What is a consumer that eats only plants? Caterpillars, cow, deer, etc.
200
12.) When a flea is living on a dog, what is the dog called?
What is a host?
200
5.) What is a population? Give an example.
What is all members of one species in a particular area (i.e. humans, fish, finger monkeys).
200
16.)List all of things that an organism's habitat must provide.
What is food, water, shelter, other things it needs to live and grow and reproduce. Also, wifi.
200
20.)What is an energy pyramid?
What is a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
300
17.) A _______is an organism that makes its own food?
What is a producer?
300
19.) What is the first organism in a food chain?
What is a producer (as in a flower or tree).
300
7 & 8) What are biotic and abiotic factors?
Biotic: the living parts of a habitat (plants, animals, humans).
Abiotic: the nonliving parts of a habitat (light, temperature, water).
300
What abiotic factors do algae and plants use to carry out photosynthesis?
10.) The process that producers use carbon from carbon dioxide to produce other carbon-containing molecules.
What is the carbon cycle?
400
21.) What is a scavenger? Be able to give an example.
What is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. Crows, vultures, lobsters, etc.
400
6.) What is the smallest unit of an ecological organization?
What is an organism?
400
13.) A ______ is all the different populations that live together in an area.
What is a community?
400
26 & 27) What is a niche? What is predation?
A niche is the role of an organism in it’s habitat, or how it makes its living.
Predation is an interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
18.) In an energy pyramid, which level has the most energy?
What is a producer?
500
28.) _________ is the close relationship between two organisms where at least one of the species __________.
What is symbiosis?
500
14 & 15.) What is a limiting factor? What is emigration?
Limiting factor: an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease.
Emigration: leaving a population (ex: when giraffe move to a new plains to find food).
500
24 & 25) What are adaptations? What are predator adaptations?
Adaptions are the behaviors and physical characteristics in species that allow them to live successfully in their environment.
Predator adaptations are adaptations help a predator catch and kill their prey (i.e.: speed, claws, sense of smell).