Energy Roles
Biotic & Abiotic Factors
Organization in Ecosystems
Food webs and Chains
Interactions
100

What are organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun?

What are producers (autotrophs)?
100

Provide three examples of a biotic factors?

What are humans, dogs, and grass?

100
What is the term for all the members of one species living in a particular area?

What is a population?

100

What is the term for many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem?

What is a food web?

100

What are the three main types of interactions between organisms?

What are:

competition, predation, symbiosis?

200

There are four types of consumers.  What are they?

What are: herbivores (eat only plants)

carnivores (eat only animals)

omnivores (eat both plants and animals)

scavenger (carnivores that feed on the bodies of dead organisms)

200

Provide three examples of abiotic factors?

What is the sun, dirt, and temperature?

200

A group of multiple populations in one area is called a(n) _________.

What is a community?

200

What is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy?

What is a food chain?

200

What is the term for a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed?

What is commensalism?

300

Where does all energy come up?

What is the sun?

300
Are leaves considered biotic or abiotic?

What is biotic because they are part of a living thing?

300
Place the following words in order from smallest to largest?

Population, Ecosystem, Community, Oganism

What is:

Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem

300

What must all food chains begin with?

What is a producer (autotroph)?
300

In a parasitic relationship, what is the organism called that the parasite lives with, in, or on?

What is the host?

400

What are two examples of decomposers?

What are mushrooms, bacteria, and mold?

400

Provide an example of an abiotic factors impacting a biotic factor?

What is when the sun shines, plants are able to perform photosynthesis?

400

What is the term for a group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce?

What is species?

400

What percent of energy is to the next higher level in a food chain?

What is only about 10%?

400

What is a niche?

What is the role of an organism in its habitat?

500

What are two examples of scavengers?

What are catfish and voltures?

500

An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce is called its _________.

What is habitat?

500

A group of zebra, a group of lions, grass, sunlight, temperature, dirt, and sunlight in an area is a(n) _______.

What is an ecosystem?

500

What is the term for what shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web?

What is an energy pyramid?
500

What is it called when a fox hunts for a squirrel to gain energy?

What is predation?