The Basics
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
These create their own food.
What are producers?
These display the flow of energy from one living thing to another in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain or food pyramid?
Nature's process of building an ecosystem from bare rock where no soil or living things exist.
What is primary succession?
How do you say "two" in Swedish?
What is tvo?
A plant, animal, or single cell lifeform.
What is an organism?
These eat other living things in an ecosystem.
What are consumers?
Things which only eat plants are known as...
What is a herbivore?
Organisms such as lichens and mosses which are the first elements in a new ecosystem are known as this?
What are pioneer species?
Mr. McKay's cat.
Who is Winnie?
An estimated one quarter of marine life rely on this type of ecosystem for their food or shelter.
What is a coral reef?
These eat dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
These consume meat.
Nature's process of rebuilding an ecosystem after a disturbance (e.g. a forest fire, a flood) when soil is still present.
What is secondary succession?
Mr. McKay's teaching enemy.
Who is Mrs. Schram?
These are non-living elements in an ecosystem such as water, soil, sunlight.
What are abiotic?
Fungi are an example of this.
Animals which eat both plants and other animals, for example, black bears, are know as this.
What are omnivores?
The maximum number of a species which an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
This was the key phrase spoken when winning the jailbreak math game (you had to stand up and say...)
What is meka leka hi meka hiney ho?
There are the living things within an ecosystem, for example, giraffes, plants, etc.
What are biotic elements?
A wolf is an example of this.
What is a consumer, carnivore, or predator?
When drawing a food chain, you must include these between the different elements in order to show the flow/transfer of energy.
What are arrows.
Non-native plants or animals which compete with native species for space and/or other resources.
What are invasive species?
He was a painter born in London, Ontario in 1931.
Who was Jack Chambers?