Living/Nonliving
What are plants and animals considered in an ecosystem?
Biotic
What is a physical feature or action that animals have or do to help them survive in their environment?
An adaptation
What is a non-living thing called in an ecosystem?
Abiotic
True or False: The tag and recapture method needs to be done only once a year?
False - needs to be repeated every year for comparison
What is an example of a non-living thing in a habitat?
Anything abiotic
Two male blackbucks are fighting for a single female's attention by locking antlers. What is this relationship called?
Competition
What is all of one kind of species that lives in an ecosystem?
A Population
Ways animals or plants respond to or how their bodies change to help them survive in their environment.
Adaptations
This method involved finding several wild organisms in a specific study area, capturing and tagging them, then releasing them back into the wild.
Tag - Recapture
Provide an example of a living thing in an ecosystem.
Anything Biotic
What is the relationship called when one organism kills and eats another organism?
Predation
What is an abiotic component within a coral reef?
Anything non-living, like water, sunlight, ocean currents, etc.
This biome is located on the poles of the globe and the community is made up of penguins, permafrost, and birds
What is the Arctic
What is the process that shows the direct and indirect effects the apex predators have on the rest of their ecosystem?
trophic cascade
To avoid death, what else do all organisms do to survive? Hint: two things
Adapt and/or Move
Eat / Reproduce
What is one type of symbiosis?
Parasitism, Mutualism, or Commensalism
A _____ is the background of an ecosystem - the living and non-living parts together.
A habitat
The species at the top of the food chain / trophic pyramid.
Apex Predator
A caterpillar eats all of the leaves from a tomato plant. Now there are no leaves to help the plant grow through photosynthesis. No tomatoes for the farmer at the end of the growing season. The caterpillars have a _______ impact on the farmers ability to harvest tomatoes.
Indirect / Negative
Provide an example of an abiotic and a biotic component interacting in an ecosystem.
Rain on a tree, a lizard soaking up some sunlight, a polar bear swimming in cold water, etc.
Barnacles on a grey whale are a great example of commensalism. When the barnacles start to interfere with the grey whale's ability to swim, what type of relationship is taking over?
Parasitism
What is the variety of living things on a genetic, species, and ecosystem level in specific geographical area of land?
Biodiversity
Where do plants get their initial ingredients of carbon dioxide for photosynthesis?
the Air
What type of species can cause a trophic cascade from being introduced to an ecosystem?
Invasive Species