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Ecology
Ch 5, symbiosis, webs, pyramids
Question | Answer |
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Plants make their own food using chlorlphyll | Photosynthesis |
Community of organisms and the environment they live in | Ecosystem |
diagram that shows energy and how much is passed as you move up to each level | Energy Pyramid |
consumers that eat only plants | Herbivore |
oranism that must eat other organisms for food energy | Consumers |
shows the transfer of energy or food through an ecosystem | Food web |
breaks down the remains of dead things or wastes | Decomposers |
Plants taking in carbon dioxide to make food is part of the ____________ cycle. | Carbon |
A dog with a tick on it is a symbiotic relationship called? | Parasitism |
Products of photosynthesis are sugar or glucose, water and ______ | oxygen |
The substance in plants that allows them to capture and use the sun’s energy is ____________________ | chlorophyll |
__________________from the sky can take nitrogen out of the air and put it in the soil. | Lightning |
Bacteria on the roots of some plants can take _____________ out of the air and make it useable. | Nitrogen |
Deocmposers can release ____________________ from wastes and dead organisms. | Nitrogen and carbon |
____ percent of the total energy is passed up the food chain or energy pyramid. | 10 |
Symbiosis that helps both | Mutualism |
Animals use nitrogen to make_____. | protein |
Animals get carbon and nitrogen by ? | eating organims |
All food chains and webs eventually end with organisms dying and ________________________ breaking them down | decomposers |
A honey bee and a flower are examples of this relationship. | mutualism |