Vocabulary
the living and nonliving things that interact in an environment
a. food chain b. environment
c. ecosystem d. food web
c. ecosystem
What could happen if you drastically change an environmental factor in an ecosystem?
What is the best salt concentration for brine shrimp to hatch?
a. 10-20 ml/150ml
b. 20-30 ml/150ml
c. 40-50ml/150ml
a. 10-20 ml/150ml
What do you call an organism that takes up the most space in an environment?
a. variable b. spacey
c. dominant d. tolerant
c. dominant
what is the difference between two or more living or nonliving things?
a. concentration b. environment
c. variation d. range of tolerance
c. variation
what was one result of the salt concentration increasing in Monolake?
brine shrimp did not hatch, brine shrimp died, gulls died, predators would be able to reach the gulls
all the interacting food chains in an ecosystem is a ....
a. food web b. food chain
c. environment d. ecosystem
a. food web
producer
Name the four stages, in order, of the mealworm's life cycle.
egg, lavae, pupa, adult beatle
List two examples of how plants depend on animals for survival.
animals disperse seeds, bees pollinate flowers, protection, decomposition
an action that helps a plant or animal survive...
a. behavior b. function
c. variation c. tolerance
b. function
List two examples of how animals depend on plants for survival.
plants give them shelter, plants give them food, plants can provide camouflage
What is one way isopods are different from insects?
# of legs
how they use their legs
how they breathe
the varying conditions of one environmental factor in which an organism can survive...
a. range of salinity b. salt tolerance
c. range of tolerance d. adaptation
c. range of tolerance
What do you call it when an organism is able to survive in salty conditions?
salt-tolerant
Give two ways aquatic and terrestrial environments are different
*water levels (give example)
*one on land/one on water
*temperature change (one is rapid, one is slow)