NAME:  __________________________

Living Environment                                                                     Mrs. Zinman

Relationships in an Ecosystem

 

Community Interactions:

1. What is competition?

2. What is predation? (Be sure to include the terms predator and prey)

3. What is symbiosis?

1. What is parasitism?

Feeding Relationships:

4. What is a food chain?

5. What are the four main parts of a food chain?  Explain each.

6. Draw an example of a food chain using words and pictures.

7. What types of organisms start all food chains?

8. What are producers?  What role do they play in food chains?
   
9. What is the original source of ENERGY for all food chains?

10. What are consumers?

1. What is an herbivore?  Give an example.

2. What is a carnivore?  Give an example.

3. What is an omnivore?  Give an example.

4. What is a scavenger?  Give an example.

5. What is a decomposer?  Give an example.

11. What is a food web?

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1. List some of the food chains by writing the organism's name and drawing a line that points to the next organism in the food chain.

 

b.     How many food chains can you find in the above food web?