Made up of many food chains
Food web
Fleas and mosquitoes feed on blood from other organisms.
Parasitism
Living things in an ecosystem is called
Biotic factor
Organisms that eat plants only
Herbivore
All the living things in the world.
What is Biosphere?
Name 2 abiotic factor
temperature, air, sunlight, water, rock, etc.
Both wolves and bears hunt the same prey in their habitats.
Competition
What is all of one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem?
Population
Organisms that make their own food is called
Autotroph
Made up of layers of gas that surround the Earth
What is atmosphere?
2 organism in predation relationship
What are predator and prey?
When a fruit bat eats the fruit from a fig tree, it eats the seeds as well. These seeds are dispersed through the bat’s droppings.
Mutualism
Different population living in a certain space at a certain time is called
An organism that get its nutrition by eating producers
Primary consumer
4 ways how population change, explain its effect.
Natality +
Mortality -
Immigration +
Emmigration -
Identify the five kingdoms of life
Plants, Animal, Fungi, Bacteria, Protist
Sea otters eat a variety of sea creatures, including sea stars, clams and octopus
Predation
The scientific study of interactions between
different organisms and between organisms
and their environment or surroundings
What is ecology?
The model shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next in an ecosystem. It has a wide base and a pointed top.
Energy pyramid
Compare and contrast the hydrosphere and cryosphere
Both are water; the hydrosphere is liquid, cryospere is solid
Explain endemic species
Organisms found in a specific place only
Many weeds create spiky burrs that attach to an animal’s hair or fur. As the animal travels, these burrs fall off, successfully dispersing the plant’s seeds.
Commensalism
What is an endangered species? Give me an example.
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Write the equation of photosynthesis.

2 types of energy change, explain each using an example
Density dependent - Depending on the population size ex. disease
Density independent - Size of the population does not matter. ex. fire, earthquake