Abiotic Vs Biotic
Give 3 examples of Abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
Water, air, earth, etc.
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats in order to get energy.
Give 3 examples of humans positively impacting their environment.
Recycling, cleaning up waste, reducing waste, removing invasive species, etc.
Give an example of an organism interacting with a nonliving thing in its ecosystem.
Give 3 examples of producers.
What is a decomposer?
An organism that breaks down dead materials.
Give 3 examples of natural changes to an environment.
Any 3 natural disasters, weathering, erosion deposition.
How do invasive species negative impact ecosystem?
The increase competition and reduce resources in an area which disrupts the balance of an ecosystem.
Give 3 examples of Biotic factors that could be in an ecosystem.
Any producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Give 3 examples of Consumers.
Any 3 animals.
Give 3 examples of decomposers.
Bacteria, fungi (fungus), mushrooms, worms, etc.
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What will happen to animal populations if their habitat experiences deforestation in order to build a highway? Why?
The animal populations will decrease because their habitat has been destroyed and now they have no place fore shelter and resources
Give an example of a living organism interacting with another living organism.
A salamander eating a leaf.
What do the arrows in food chains represent?
They represent the transfer of energy between organisms.
What is the source of energy in any food chain?
The sun
Deforestation is the removal of trees/ forests, and it impacts ecosystems negatively because it reduces resources like food and shelter for ecosystems.
If there is an insect eating bird in an ecosystem and I use pesticides in order to protect the crops from being eaten by insects, what will happen to the insect eating bird population and why?
The insect eating bird population will decrease because their food supply (the insects) will decrease from the pesticides.
Why must there be abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem?
Because without abiotic things there could be no shelter and resources for life.
What would happen to a food web if I removed all the producers?
There would be no living consumers or producers.
What would happen if I removed all the top predators in a food web?
Explain how building highways increases air pollution.
More highways mean more cars will be on the road. Increasing the amount of cars that travel in an area will increase the about of carbon dioxide that is released into the air.
If abandon buildings are torn down and a city park is built in its place, what would happen to the bat population.
The bat population would decrease because their place to roost during the day would be removed.