Vocabulary
Parts of an ecosystem that are living or used to be living
Biotic factors
Land biome in which trees lose and regrow leaves each year; the biome we live in
temperate deciduous forest
All of the living things and their physical environments with a particular area
ecosystem
Parts of an ecosystem that has never been living
Abiotic factors
Relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is hurt/harmed
parasitism
Members of the same species that live in the same area at the same time
Population
biosphere
Do the students in your class make up a population or community? Why?
Population because we are the same species (Humans)
All of the species of freshwater fish that live together
in a lake form this.
Community
Relationship in which both organisms benefit
mutualism
An individual living thing
organism
A group of ecosystems that share similar abiotic and biotic conditions
biome
Organisms must interact with living and nonliving parts of their ecosystem to ____________?
Survive
Nursery of the sea; where salt and freshwater meet
Estuary
What relationship describes a dog and a flea?
Parasitism
All populations in a particular area
Community
Biome characterized by low temperatures and very little precipitation
Tundra
Why do different organisms live in different habitats
Different organisms require different abiotic and biotic conditions to survive.
Describe the difference between a food chain and food web.
Food webs detail all of the possible food chains within an ecosystem
Identify the relationship between a squirrel and a tree: the squirrel gets a place to live and it doesn't bother the tree
Commensalism
The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environments
Ecology
What is the different between an ecosystem and a biome?
An ecosystem includes all of the living things in an area plus their nonliving environment. Biomes are groups of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms.
What is the difference between a species and a population?
A species is a group of genetically similar individual. A population includes members of the same species that live in a given area
What is the difference between a population and a community?
Population is the same species in the same area
A community includes many populations in the same area
Why are organisms so well-adapted to the conditions of the biomes in which they live?
They have slowly evolved to adapt to their environments