Ecosystem Basics
An ecosystem includes both living(biotic facotor) and non-living(_____)Parts.
What are abiotic factors?
The first organisms in the food chain are always...
What are Producers?
When two or more species rely on the same limited resource?
What is Competition?
Cutting down large areas of forest for farms or cities is called this.
What is deforestation?
A group of the same species living in one area
What is Population?
An organism that must eat other organisms in order to survive.
What are consumers?
One organism hunts, kills, and eats another
What is Predation?
The release of harmful substances into the air, soil, or water
What is Pollution?
All the different populations living and interacting in one place
What is a community?
Consumers that eat only primary producers.
What are Herbivores or Primary Consumers?
A long-term close relationship between two species
What is Symbiosis?
When too many nutrients from fertilizers wash into waterways, it causes algae to grow and oxygen to drop.
What is eutrophication?
A specific role an organism plays in its ecosystem, including what it eats and where it lives.
What is a Niche?
About what percentage of energy is passed on between trophic levels?
What is 10%?
A tick feeding on a dog is an example of this type of interaction
What is parasitism?
The increase in Earth's average temperature due to gases like carbon dioxide trapping heat
What is Global Warming or Climate Change?
This word describes the variety of living things in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
What is the process that decomposers return nutrients to the soil, completing the cycle of matter?
What is Decomposition(Nutrient Recycling)?
The interaction between bees and flowers is an example of which mutual relationship?
What is mutualism?
When non-native species are introduced and harm native ecosystems.
What are invasive species?