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Biology(Academic)
Ecosystem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do herbivores eat? | Plants |
| How come predators are important? | They control and maintain thepopulation of their prey |
| What is biomass? | Total amount of living tissue in each trophic level |
| What is the difference of food chain and food web? | Food chain show just 1 path as animals find food and food web shows how plants and animals are connected in many ways to survive |
| What is parasitism? | Symbiotic relationship in which an organism goes onto a host and harms it. However, the host lives. For example, leach and mosquito |
| What is mutualism? | Symbiotic relationship in which both organisms are benefited. For example, Bee pollinating a flower |
| What is commensalism? | Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benfits and the other is neither harmed or helped. For example, sea anemone and a clown fish |
| What is predation? | An organism captures and eats another organism. For example, lion, hunting a gazelle |
| Where does the food chain starts? | Producer |
| How much energy are passed on to each trophic level? | 10% of energy |
| What happens to the other energy? | Lost or given off as heat |
| What feeds on the waste products or bodies of other organisms? | Decomposers |