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Ecosystems Set #2

8.L.3.1, 8.L.3.2, 8.L.3.3

QuestionAnswer
Both bees and flowers BENEFIT Mutualism
Commensalism When one organisms benefits and the other is not affected
Competition When two organisms compete for a limited resource (food, shelter, water, space)
Human is HARMED, the mosquito BENEFITS Parasitism
Mutualism When both organisms benefit
Parasitism When one organism benefits and the other one is harmed
Predation One organism captures and feeds on the other organism
Predator The animal that hunts and eats other animals
Prey The animal that is hunted or eaten
Small fish BENEFITS, shark is UNAFFECTED (doesn't benefit or harm) Commensalism
Symbiosis A relationship between organisms
Air, water, sunlight, precipitation, soil, temperature, climate Examples of abiotic factors
plants, animals, insects, disease, predators, human intervention Examples of biotic factors
herbivores, carnivores, scavengers, decomposers Examples of a consumers
fungi, bacteria, worms Examples of decomposers
The transfer of energy, points to the direction the energy is going In a food web, what do the arrows represent?
Lack of the following: Food , Water, Shelter, Mates, Space What factors limit population?
The largest population that an area can support. What is carrying capacity?
The Sun What is the primary source of all energy in an ecosystem?
To make its own food. What is the function (job) of a producer or autotroph?
Feeding on other organisms. What is the function (job) of a consumer or heterotroph?
Break down waste and dead organisms while returning raw materials back into the environment. What is the function (job) of a decomposer?
Producer level In an energy pyramid, which level has the most available energy?
Organism, Population, Community, Biosphere, Ecosystem. Correctly arrange the levels of environmental organization in order of SMALLEST to LARGEST.
parasitism What type of relationship is beneficial to one organism but harmful to the other organism in the relationship?
mutualism What type of relationship is beneficial to both organisms in the relationship?
Primary Consumer Herbivores are what type of consumer?
carnivores and omnivores Secondary, Tertiary & Quaternary Consumers are what type of consumer?
Commensalism What type of relationship is beneficial to one and the other is neither harmed nor benefited?
10% rule Only 10% of the total energy produced at each trophic level is available to the next level
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