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Ecosystems Set #2
8.L.3.1, 8.L.3.2, 8.L.3.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |