Cells
Food webs/chains
Levels of Organization
Ecosystems
Organism Interactions
100

Plant and animal cells are both examples of what type of cell?

What are eukaryotes?

100

In this food chain:

grass → grasshopper → frog

Name the producer.

What is the grass?

100

A group of organs working together (like the digestive group) is called this.

What is an organ system?

100

Which is abiotic: fungus, sunlight, leaves, bacteria.

What is sunlight?

100

Lion hunting zebra—name the interaction.

What is predation?

200

What is this organelle?

What is mitochondria?

200

Organisms that break down dead material and recycle nutrients.

What are decomposers?

200

Put these in order (small→big): organ systems, tissues, organism, organs, cells.

What is cells→tissues→ organs→ organ systems→ organism?

200

Name one example of a natural disaster?

What is a wildfire, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, etc. 

Answers will vary.

200

Two oak seedlings growing side-by-side both need sunlight and water. Name the interaction.

What is competition?

300

What is this organelle?

What is the endoplasmic reticulum?

300

The arrows in a food web show the transfer of this.

What is energy?

300

What are all individuals of the same species in the same area?

What is a population?

300

A pond’s water level drops for weeks. Predict what happens to the fish population and name the limiting factor.

Fish decrease; limiting factor = water (or oxygen)

300

Tick on a dog—one benefits, one is harmed. Name the interaction and the roles.

What is parasitism? (tick = parasite, dog = host)

400

What are the three organelles that are found in plant cells but not animal cells?

What is cell wall, chloroplast, and central vacuole?

400

In an energy pyramid:

- which level has the most energy?

- why do higher levels usually have less energy?

Producers (the bottom of the pyramid) have the most energy.

Higher levels have less energy because they do not get their energy from a direct source (like the sun). Consumers have to get their energy from other organisms.

400

What is the level that includes multiple populations interacting with one another?

What is a community?

400

Clue: Identify the level in each case.
A) “All ducks in City Park Pond” → ________
B) “Ducks, fish, insects, and plants in City Park Pond” → ________
C) “City Park Pond + water, rocks, air, and sunlight” → ________
D) “Desert areas around the world” → ________

A) Population  B) Community  C) Ecosystem  D) Biome

400

Cleaner shrimp removing parasites from a moray eel—both benefit. Name the symbiosis type.

What is mutualism?

500

What are the three statements of the cell theory?

What are

1. All living things are made of cells.

2. All cells come from pre-existing cells.

3. Cells are the basic unit of life.

500

In a meadow food web:

grass → rabbit → hawk   AND

grass → grasshopper → frog → hawk

If the hawk population drops, what is one population likely to increase and one likely to decrease? Explain briefly using the food web.

Increase: rabbits or frogs/grasshoppers (fewer predators). 

Decrease: grass (more rabbits/grasshoppers eating it).

500

Order these (small→big): biosphere, ecosystem, organisms/species, community, biome, population.

What is organisms/species → population → community→ ecosystem→ biome→ biosphere?

500

After a flood, which limiting factor most immediately limits burrowing animals? (creatures that dig holes or tunnels in the ground to create homes for themselves)

What is shelter/space?

500

Remora riding on a shark to catch scraps; the shark isn’t helped or hurt. Name the symbiosis type.

What is commensalism?