Interactions With Organisms

Question 1

Predator

Answer 1

Something that eats another animal.

Question 2

Prey

Answer 2

Something that gets eaten by a predator.

Question 3

Energy Pyramid

Answer 3

The way energy is passed through an ecosystem.

Question 4

Primary Producer

Answer 4

An organism that makes it’s energy from the sun.

Question 4

Primary Consumer

Answer 4

An organism that gets it’s energy from eating a producer.

Question 5

Secondary Consumer

Answer 5

An organism that gets it’s energy from eating a primary consumer.

Question 6

Tertiary Consumer

Answer 6

An organism that gets it’s energy from eating a primary or secondary consumer.

Question 7

Decomposer

Answer 7

Something that gets it’s energy from dead animals or decaying matter.

Question 9

10% Rule

Answer 9

“When a consumer eats a producer or another consumer, it only get 10%, as 90% of energy consumed gets sent to life processes.”

Question 10

Symbiosis

Answer 10

A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other.

Question 11

Parasitism

Answer 11

One species benefits of another species, which is harmed.

Question 12

Commensalism

Answer 12

One organism benefits and the other is unaffected.

Question 13

Mutualism

Answer 13

Both species benefit; sometimes depend on each other to survive.

Question 14

Quaternary Consumer

Answer 14

Something that eats a primary, secondary, or tertiary consumer.