3.1 The Biosphere
The search for life originating outside our living planet on places like the moon, mars, and europa.
What is Astrobiology?
A limited area smaller than a biome in which living and nonliving things interact.
What is Ecosystems?
A direct result of the earth’s tilt.
What is Seasons?
A greater amount of living matter.
What is Biomass?
Animals interacting with each other within their habitat.
What is Symbiosis?
The realm of life on earth
What is Biosphere?
A smaller part of an ecosystem that an organism prefers. Where it lives.
What is Habitat?
Affects how extreme the changes associated with seasons can be.
What is Latitude?
Organisms that synthesize their own food. They do not depend on other organisms for nutrition.
What is Producers?
1. Neither species benefit.
2. Both species benefit.
1. What is Competition?
2. What is Mutualism?
The study of interrelationships between organisms and their relation to their physical surroundings.
Recess in the wall or nest. How it lives.
What is Niche?
Can have the same effect on climate as latitude, affecting the swings of temperature and precipitation.
What is Elevation?
They cannot produce their own food, instead they consume the producers.
What is consumers?
One species benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
The number of species in an area.
What is Biodiversity?
1. Nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.
2. Living parts of the ecosystem.
1. What is Abiotic Factors?
2. What is Biotic Factors?
Affects an area’s climate because water changes temperature slowly, moderating how fast air temperatures can change.
What is Bodies of Water?
1. Animals that get their food from plants.
2. Animals that eat both other animals and plants.
3. Animals that eat other animals.
1. What is Herbivores?
2. What is Omnivores?
3. What is Carnivores?
One species benefits while one is harmed.
What is Parasitism?
Ecologists give their homes something similar to an address, dividing the biosphere up into large areas that have a fairly consistent environment and are home to a set of organisms suited to it. These areas are called...
What is Biomes?
1. The living things that inhabit the same ecosystem.
2. A group of organisms of the same species interacting in the same area.
1. What is Community?
2. What is Population?
Ecological layering
What is Vertical Zonation?
1. The waste products of plants and animals.
2. Organisms that break down nutrients.
1. What is Detritus?
2. What is Decomposers?
1. One species benefits while the other dies.
2. Both species unaffected.
1. What is Predation?
2. What is Neutralism?