Symbiotic relationships
Human Impact
Food Webs
Random questions about ecology
Vocabulary
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The crocodile bird will fly into the Nile crocodile's mouth and feed on the decomposing meat that is stuck between their teeth. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
Mutualism
100
What is urbanization
The building of homes in a once rural place.
100
What is a food web?
It is multiple food chains intertwined together
100
What is a limiting factor?
Anything that constrains a population from growing
100
What is a producer
Something that makes its own food
200
The imperial shrimp will ride on a sea cucumber to different areas and hunt. The sea cucumber is not harmed
Commensalism
200
What is deforestation?
The clearing of trees in an area.
200
The Larval fish is considered what level of consumer?
Secondary consumer
200
If the predator population decreases the prey population will.....
Increase
200
What is competition
competing for one resource
300
Many lichens are composed of fungi and algae. The fungi get sugars from the algae, and the algae get water, minerals, and proteins from the fungi.
Mutualism
300
deforestation and urbanization has caused there to be an increase in what?
Soil erosion
300
Which animal would have the largest population?
Phytoplankton
300
What would happen if all producers got removed from an ecosystem?
The entire ecosystem would collapse.
300
What is a primary consumer
An organism that eats the producer.
400
Fish lice eat the tongue out of a fish's mouth and then attach themselves where the tongue used to be to continue feeding on the fish's blood.
Parasitism
400
They have a lane of I-4 to encourage car pooling, why is this?
To reduce air pollution
400
What is the highest level consumer the sea nettle can be.
Tertiary consumer
400
What do the arrows in a food web/ food chain represent?
Flow of energy
400
What is an omnivore, herbivore, and a carnivore
both, plants, meat
500
Mosquitos carry heart worm larvae inside their bodies. The larvae does not harm the mosquito. When the mosquito bites the dog it transfers the heart worm to the dogs body, where it will live in the dog's heart. It will grow and reproduce there.
What is the symbiotic relationship between the heart worm and mosquito? And the relationship between the heart worm and the dog?
Commensalism and parasitism.
500
What are two ways humans can positively impact then environment
recycling, car pooling, reducing emissions, ect
500
How does the phytoplankton get its energy?
The sun
500
What is the difference between carrying capacity and population density
Carrying capacity is how many organisms can live in a given area. Population density is the number of organism in a square foot of land.
500
Give me an example of each type of symbiotic relationship.
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