Energy Flow
What is the first organism in a food chain called?
What is a producer?
What is an example of a physical adaptation in a predator?
What is sharp teeth or claws?
What is the name of the process where carbon stored in dead plants and animals is broken down by decomposers?
What is decomposition?
What is the type of symbiotic relationship where both species benefit?
What is mutualism?
Any place on Earth where living things interact with other living and non-living things.
What is an ecosystem?
What type of consumer eats only plants?
What is an herbivore?
What is the scientific definition of adaptation?
What is the process where species with traits best suited to their environment survive, reproduce, and pass those traits to their offspring over generations?
What is the name of the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through their leaves?
What is transpiration?
What is the type of symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed?
What is parasitism?
What is oxygen, food, shelter, water, and energy?
What do we call organisms that break down dead material and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem?
What are decomposers?
What do we call the ability of an animal to blend in with its surroundings to avoid predators?
What is camouflage?
What is the term for water vapor cooling and turning into liquid droplets to form clouds?
What is condensation?
Barnacles attach to a whale's skin to catch plankton while the whale is unaffected. What type of symbiosis is this?
What is commensalism?
What are 3 examples of biotic factors in an ecosystem?
What is animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc...
What is the main difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is that a food web shows multiple interconnected food chains?
Why do plants grow broad leaves in shady areas?
What is to capture more sunlight for photosynthesis?
How does deforestation affect the carbon cycle?
What is it reduces the number of trees that can absorb carbon dioxide, increasing atmospheric CO2 levels?
Bees pollinate flowers while collecting nectar for food. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is mutualism?
What are 3 examples of abiotic factors in an ecosystem?
What is the sun, water, soil, air, minerals, etc...
What is the energy transfer percentage from one trophic level to the next in a food chain?
What is about 10%?
How do Arctic foxes’ fur change with the seasons?
What is it turns white in winter for camouflage in snow and brown in summer to blend with the tundra?
What is the carbon cycle?
What is the way carbon moves through the Earth and its atmosphere. Plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food through photosynthesis. Animals eat plants, and when they breathe or when plants and animals die and break down, carbon goes back into the air or soil. This cycle keeps carbon moving so all living things can use it!
What is a close relationship between two different species where at least one benefits?
What is symbiosis?
1. Otters living with sea urchins, sea weed, and trees
2. Everyone living in Edmonton right now
3. Ants
1. What is a community?
2. What is a population?
3. What is a species?