Spheres of the Earth & Ecology
The type of data being gathered in the following statement: "There were 4.2 inches of rainfall on Saturday."
What is quantitative data?
An example of two abiotic factors
What is two non-living parts of the environment (rainfall, temperature, soil, rocks, etc.)?
Where autotrophs get their energy
What is the sun or chemical compounds?
This is what the arrows represent in a food chain
What is the transfer of energy?
A vine climbs up a tree. It steals nutrients from the tree and blocks the tree's sunlight. This is the type of symbiotic relationship between the vine and the tree.
What is parasitism?
An example of a feature in each of the Earth's spheres
What is...
- Life (plants, animals, insects, humans, bacteria, etc.) in Biosphere
- Air (oxygen, nitrogen, ozone, wind, carbon dioxide, water vapor, etc.) in Atmosphere
- Land (rocks, minerals, soil, Earth's core, mantle, mountains, sand, metals, etc.) in Geosphere
- Water (oceans, lakes, rivers, clouds, groundwater, glaciers, etc.) in Hydrosphere
The place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
See image on screen. This is the organism in the chart that is a producer.
What is a sunflower?
An autotroph and herbivore are shown in a food chain. This is the organism that the arrow would point to.
What is the herbivore?
An example of commensalism
What is a tree frog using plants as protection? ANY example you come up with will be accepted!!
The portion of the hydrosphere that is frozen (includes glaciers and sea ice)
What is the Cryosphere?
Koalas are found in areas that have eucalyptus trees to support their limited diet. Specialist or generalist?
What is a specialist?
An animal is hunted by a predator, killed, and then eaten immediately. This is the type of consumer that could have eaten it.
What is a carnivore or an omnivore?
The amount of energy transferred between trophic levels
What is 10%?
A bird cleans the teeth of a crocodile. The bird eats the parasites from the teeth while cleaning them. This is the type of symbiotic relationship between the bird and the crocodile.
What is mutualism?
Name one of the other disciplines closely linked to ecology.
What is biology, chemistry, meteorology, engineering, geology, physics, or mathematics?
A group of organisms of the same species found in one area at a given time is a(n) ___________.
What is population?
See image on screen. This is the organism in the chart with the smallest population.
What is the hawk?
Explain why decomposers and scavengers are found all throughout the food chain.
What is they are found anywhere there are dead organisms?
The difference between batesian and mullerian mimicry
What is batesian mimicry is when a nontoxic organism mimics a toxic organism (different species of coral snakes), and mullerian mimicry is when two toxic organisms mimic each other (Viceroy and Monarch butterflies)?
An example of how the Earth's spheres interact as conditions change
What is rain (hydrosphere) falling on the soil (geosphere) causing the grass (biosphere) to grow? ANY example you come up with will be accepted!!
The difference in an animal's fundamental and realized niche
What is the fundamental niche is the role an organism can occupy without competition, and a realized niche is a smaller niche an organism occupies because of competition?
The difference between food webs and food chains
What is food webs show overlapping food chains?
This is the type of energy released from one trophic level to the next.
What is heat energy?
Describe two specific prey adaptations.
What is...
- Camouflage: organisms blend into the environment
- Batesian Mimicry: a nontoxic organism mimics a toxic organism
- Mullerian Mimicry: two toxic organisms mocking each other
- Chemical Toxins: deters predators with spray or foul taste
- Speed: outruns predators
- Thanatosis: plays dead to deter predators
- Physical Structures: create a barrier
- Warning Calls: warns others that predators are nearby
- Mobbing/Group Behavior: groups of prey working together to attack a predator
- Autotomy: casting off a body part when attacked