The part of Earth where life exists including land, water, and air
What is the biosphere?
100
The type of consumer that eats plants
What is a herbivore?
100
The network of feeding interactions
What is a food web?
100
A relationship where one organism benefits, and the other organism is harmed
What is parasitism?
100
The pyramid that measures the amount of living organic matter at each trophic level
What is the pyramid of biomass?
200
The level with an assemblage of different populations
What is a community?
200
The type of consumer that eats carcassses of dead animals
What is a scavenger?
200
What does the arrow in a food web show?
The organism receiving the food and energy
200
Identify the type of symbiosis: (mutualism, parasitism, or commensalism) Clownfish live among the sea anemone's tentacles and protect the sea anemone by chasing away predators. The sea anemone also protects the clownfish.
What is mutualism?
200
True/False: As the trophic level increases, the amount of energy transferred increases
False
300
The level of classification dogs are...
What is a species?
300
The type of consumer that a cow is
What is a herbivore?
300
The organization of food energy flow that can handle a disturbance
What is a food web?
300
Identify the type of symbiosis: (mutualism, parasitism, or commensalism) Ticks feed on deer blood
What is parasitism?
300
The % of energy transferred from one level to the next level on the pyramid of energy
What is 10%?
400
The tundra an example of...
What is a biome?
400
The type of consumer a human is
What is an omnivore?
400
Hawks are an example of what trophic level in a food web
What is the top consumer level?
400
Identify the type of symbiosis: (mutualism, parasitism, or commensalism) Barnacles that attach to the bodies of whales, and the whale is not harmed
What is commensalism?
400
The pyramid that shows the relative amount of individual organisms at each trophic level in the ecosystem
What is the pyramid of numbers?
500
The seven levels of classification in ecology from smallest to biggest
What is individual organism, species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?
500
The five types of consumers we studied (not detritivores)
What is herbivores, carnivores, scavengers, decomposers, and omnivores?
500
The primary source of energy in a food web
What is the sun?
500
Identify the type of symbiosis: (mutualism, parasitism, or commensalism) The stork uses its saw-like bill to cut up the dead animals it eats. As a result, the dead animal carcass is accessible to some bees for food and egg laying
What is commensalism?
500
The % of energy at the top level of a four-trophic level pyramid of energy