Miscellaneous
Food Chains
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Food Webs
100

Name a product of photosynthesis

Glucose or Oxygen

100

Arrows in a food chain show the movement of what?

Energy

100

...describes a group of things that work together and live together in an environment...

An Ecosystem

100

This type of organism is responsible for helping get rid of other dead organisms.

Detritivore/decomposer

100

In a food web involving and pine trees moose and wolves, if the moose population goes up what happens to the wolf population?

It goes up as well

200

Name a product of cellular respiration.

Carbon dioxide, ATP or water

200
This thing must always be on the bottom of all food chains

Producer

200

A group of similar individuals living in the same geographic area is called...

A population

200

Name an abiotic limiting factor.

Temperature  

Chemical Environment 

Light

200

How much energy is lost when moving from one trophic level to the next?

90%

300

All the water on earth makes up _________

The hydrosphere

300

Herbivores are a part of what trophic level?

Primary Consumers

300

When animals are migrating out of an ecosystem

Emigration 

300

Name a biotic limiting factor

Food Availability

Predators

Diseases and Parasites

Resource Competition

300

You can tell an organism is a producer on a food web because...

There are no arrows pointing at it

400

If humans cut down trees, name an abiotic factor they are affecting.

Shade, temperature, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen

400

Name an example of a tertiary consumer.

Any top predator

400

The maximum population size of a particular species that a given ecosystem can sustain is called it's....

Carrying Capacity

400

__________ is number of different species living in a given area or ecosystem.

Biodiversity

400

Name the 3 types of organisms in a food web.

Producer, consumer, decomposer

500

Why is the biosphere fragile?

Combination of all other spheres where all life must live.

500

Place the following things in order of abundance in an foodweb from most to least; carnivores, producers, herbivores

producers>herbivores>carnivores

500

The law of _________ states an organism can survive within a certain range of an abiotic factor; above and below the limit it can not survive.

Tolerance

500

When toxins or other harmful chemicals build up in higher trophic levels this is known as...

Bioaccumulation 

500

What are the 3 types of consumers

Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores.