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Unit C Chapter 2
Flow of energy through the ecosystem.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Plants and algae that make food are called _______? | Producers |
| The organism eaten by a predator is called _______? | Prey |
| ______ is a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit. | Mutualism |
| A symbiotic relationship in which one organism is harmed and the other benefits is called _______? | Parasitism |
| Oranisms that eat other organisms are called _______? | Consumers |
| A consumer that eats other living animals is called a ______. | Predator |
| In the symbiotic relationship called _____, one organism benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed. | Commensalism |
| _______ is a close association between members of two different species living together. | Symbiosis |
| Organisms that get their food by breaking down the wastes and remains of other organisms are called _______. | Decomposers |
| Animals that eat the remains of another animal are called ______. | Scavengers |
| Most energy in an ecosystem is found is ____. | Producers |
| Bull's-horn acacia trees and the ants that protect them are an example of ______. | Mutualism |
| In the Antarctic Ocean ecosystem there are fewer krill than _____. | Algae |
| ______ means "together living." | Symbiosis |
| Going from producers to consumers in an energy pyramid,_________. | The number of individuals at each level decreases |
| When the number of prey in an ecosystem increases, their predators _______. | Increase in number |