Ecosystem basics
What is the study of how living things interact with their environment?
What is ecology?
The relationship between a bee and a flower.
What is mutualism?
Organisms that make their own food from the sun are called ________.
What are producers?
Water vapour cooling and turning into liquid is called __________.
What is condensation?
Succession that happens on bare rock.
What is primary succession?
A group of the same species living in one area is called a ________.
What is a population?
A mosquito feeding on a human is an example of what relationship?
What is parasitism?
What type of organism breaks down dead matter?
What is a decomposer?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail falling to the ground is called __________.
What is precipitation?
Succession after a fire is called.
What is secondary succession?
Multiple interacting populations living in the same area form a __________.
What is a community?
The relationship between a remora and a shark.
What is commensalism?
An interconnected network of food chains.
What is a food web?
The process of liquid water turning into vapour is __________.
What is evaporation?
Secondary succession happens faster because ______.
What is soil that is present.
Non-living parts of an ecosystem like a rock or a lake are called ________.
What are abiotic factors?
A wolf hunting a deer is an example of a ______.
What is a predator?
The total mass of living organisms in an area is known as ________.
What is biomass?
Water being released from plants is called __________.
What is transpiration?
Why does primary succsion take so long?
Because soil must slowly form from bare rock.
The specific role an organism plays in its environment is its ________.
What is a niche?
An organism that shows the health of an ecosystem is called a(n) __________.
What is an indicator species?
Chemicals building up over time in organisms is called __________.
What is bioaccumulation?
What do humans call resources like water, wood, and fossil fuels that are essential for survivial?
What are natural resources?
Both primary and secondary succession show how ecosystems __________.
What is recover and grow over time?