Energy
A _____________ makes its own energy and begins the food chain.
What is a producer?
Animals that eat only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
The direction of the flow of energy in a food web is represented by _____________.
What is an arrow?
A tick and a dog have this type of relationship.
What is parasitism?
Trees, deer, tick, grass, and fish are examples of _____________.
What are Biotic Factors?
When organisms eat the food it gives.
What is energy?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Every food chain starts with _____________.
What is the sun?
Cattle egrets are birds that forage in fields among cattle. The egrets get easy access to food and the cattle don't care if they are there.
What is commensalism?
A coral reef in the ocean is an example of ___________.
What is a microhabitat?
A _____________ cannot make its own energy and eats only plants for their energy.
What is the primary consumer? or herbivore?
An animal eating leftover meats or plants.
What is a scavenger?
Name the three most common consumers.
What is herbivore, carnivore, omnivore?
A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
The main biomes of the world are __________. (list 5)
What is aquatic, forest, desert, grassland, and tundra?
The ______________ is the lowest energy level in Energy Pyramid.
What is a tertiary consumer? or apex consumer?
When a predator hunt other animals the other animals is called?
What is prey
A frog eats a fly. The frog and fly are demonstrating _______.
What is predator/prey?
What is parasitism?
The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is _______________.
What is carrying capacity?
True or False: In Energy Pyramid, each level only gives away 10% of the energy.
True
An animal that is considered top of their food chain.
What is a Tertiary Consumer or Apex Consumer?
A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ______________.
What is Food Web?
Skunks often live in burrows that have been dug and abandoned by woodchucks.
What is commensalism?
The three major limiting factors are ____________. (list three)
What are food and water, space, and weather conditions?