Terms
The word defined as "any living thing such as a plant or animal"
What is "Organism"?
An ecosystem is all of the ___________ and ___________ things in a particular place.
What are abiotic, biotic?
What is Coastline?
Without this, plants and algae would starve.
What is Light?
An single organism is know as this.
What is an Individual?
The word defined as "Inherited characteristics that help an organism survive in its environment"
What are Adaptions?
Cod and salt water would be found in this ecosytem.
What is marine?
The ecosystems that contain freshwater.
What are rivers, lakes, and ponds?
The range of conditions within which an organism can survive is called this.
What is Range of Tolerance?
When the organisms of the same species group together it is know as this.
What is a population?
The particular place where an organism lives.
What is "Habitat"?
frogs and freshwater would be found in this ecosystem.
What is a pond?
The ecosystem where there are very low temperatures and little precipitation.
What is the arctic?
This factor has an effect on how big plants grow, and also on the type of clothing we wear outside.
What is temperature?
The interacting populations of organisms is known as this.
The non-living parts of the environment
True or False, One large ecosystem may contain smaller ecosystems.
What is true?
The ecosystem that has a lot of trees such as fir, spruce, and birch, and also animals like moose, caribou, and black bears.
What is the forest?
What is soil?
The role of a species that includes where it lives, how it obtains food, and how it affects its environment is known as this.
What is Niche?
The living parts of the ecosystem.
What is biotic?
True or False. An ecosystem may be as small as a puddle or a rotting log.
What is true?
The town of Bishop's Falls is built next to this type of freshwater ecosystem.
What is a river?
This factor allows us to breathe and gives plants carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.
What is air?
Eating caribou, moose, fox and hares. Sleeping in a den and coming out to feed at dusk and dawn. Passing on parasites such as worms and fleas to others in the pack. This would be the Niche of what Newfoundland organism?