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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the source of all energy in the ecosystem | the sun |
| What is the source of all food in the ecosystem | the producers |
| Differences between biotic and abiotic factors | biotic is living and abiotic is non living |
| What is a carrying capacity? | the largest popluation that the enviorment can suport |
| What keeps the population size near carrying capacity? | the ablity of liming recorces |
| Name the types of CONSUMERS. | carnover hurborives sacanvergers omivores |
| What is a carnivore? | olny eats meat |
| What is a omnivore? | both plants and animals |
| What is a herbivore? | eats plants |
| What percent of energy is transferred each trophic level? | 10 |
| What is ALWAYS the first organism on the food chain | prudecers |
| Difference between a food chain and a food web? | food chines is a single path food wed is more than one food chaine |
| What does a energy pyramid show? | the transfer of engry |
| Commensalism | one benfits and one is not affected |
| Mutualism | both benfit |
| Parasitism | one benefits and one is harmed |
| In a parasitism, who is the host? | the one who is harmed |
| In a parasitism, who is the parasite? | the one who benefits |
| In a Predator/Prey, who is the prey? | the one who is eaten |
| In a Predator/Prey, who is the Predator? | the one who eats the prey |
| How do producers get their own food? What is the process called? | photosynthsis |
| What do the arrows represent in the food chain? | direction of the engry flow |
| What is the formula for cellular respiration? | C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP |
| What is the formula for photosynthesis? | 6CO2 + 6H2O + light → C6H12O6 + 6O |
| Choose the correct answers based on the graph above | Predators can be limiting factors for prey Prey can be a limiting factors for predators Prey populations change based on the number or predators Predator populations change based on the number of prey |
| Define competition | the struggle between organisms for the same resource |