Levels of Organization
The Earth
What is the Biosphere?
Where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
Manatees feed upon submerged, emergent, floating, and shoreline vegetation
What is a herbivore?
Graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community
What is a Food Web?
Three examples of human impacts on the environment
What are logging, climate change, fires, drought, famine, endangered ecosystem, poaching, deforestation, clear-cutting, urban sprawl, oil and gas exploration, underground mining, monoculture farming, dam construction, heavy metals, etc?
All the members of a single species that live in one place at one time
What is a population?
Raccoons aka Trash Pandas are found throughout the US and can eat almost anything
What is a generalist?
Use energy from the Sun to make nutrients
What is a producer?
Physical representation of how energy is transferred among organisms
What is the energy pyramid?
Local ecosystem that has been severally impacted by rising ocean temperatures and sea star wasting disease
What is the Northern CA Kelp Forest?
Same climate (weather patterns) and similar communities
What is a biome?
Species's way of life
What is a niche?
The Tarsier is the only primate know to exclusively eat meat
What is a carnivore?
The essential organisms that we all rely upon from Bill Nye's video on Food Webs
What are plants?
Change in the environmental conditions that causes change in ecosystem
What is an ecological disturbance?
Types of factors that makes up the Ecosystem
What is Biotic and Abiotic?
Loss of eucalyptus trees in the wilds of Australia are affecting the survival of Koalas aka Drop Bears
What is a specialist?
Fungi help break down and recycle chemical nutrients back into the environment
What is a decomposer?
Level of consumer that eats herbivores
What is a secondary consumer?
Problematic organisms that have been eating all the kelp and outcompetiting abalone along western U.S. coast
What are purple urchins?
Zebra, wildebeest and gazelle around a watering hole in Africa
What is a community?
Warbler species live in different parts of a tree to avoid competition with each other
What is realized niche?
The Fiddle Crab feeds upon detritus by shifting through sediment
What is a Detritivore?
Killer whales only receive 0.1% of the energy produced by primary producers
What is a tertiary consumer?
Warming global temperatures due to greenhouse effect of increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in atmosphere
What is climate change?