What is my Relationship?
This term describes an organism that hunts and eats another organism
What is a predator?
I include both biotic and abiotic factors interacting together.
What is an ecosystem?
I represent the flow of energy in a food chain.
What is the arrow?
I am the variable the scientist changes on purpose
What is the independent variable
The sun and surface water is involved in this part of the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
If predators decrease, this typically happens to the prey population.
What is the prey population increases?
I am the first consumer in the food chain and I eat producers.
What is a primary consumer
I am the energy source for almost all life on earth
What is the sun?
I am the variable that responds or is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This is when plants release water vapor into the air.
What is transpiration?
A tapeworm lives inside a human’s intestines, stealing nutrients from the food the person eats.
What is a parasitic relationship?
I eat animals that eat plants (the primary consumer).
What is a secondary consumer?
I am the process that autrotrophs use to make their food.
What is photosynthesis?
I am the variable that must stay the same to keep the experiment fair.
What is a constant?
Burning fossil fuels is an example of this carbon process.
What is combustion?
The number of organisms that benefit in mutualism.
What is 2?
I am made of several populations living together and interacting.
What is a community?
Only about this percentage of energy moves from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
How many variables can I change in an experiment?
What is 1?
When plants and animals die, carbon can enter the soil through this process.
What is decomposition?
A remora fish attaches to a shark to get free rides without harming the shark.
What is commensalism?
I eat both plants and animals, putting me at multiple trophic levels.
What is an omnivore?
A drought kills grass. What happens to the food web?
What is the rest of the chain collapses?
This is an example of:
If I give my plants water, then my plants will grow taller.
What is a hypothesis?
This process removes carbon dioxide from the air and turns it into sugar.
What is photosynthesis?