Terms
The science that studies the interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
What do we call an organism that makes its own food?
What is a producer?
Plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native.
What is an invasive species?
Rainfall affects dispersal of a population by changing a bend in a river between the population. Rainfall is an example of _________ factors?
Abiotic
What is something you can hold in your left hand but never in your right hand?
Your right hand.
This consists of all the organisms in a particular region, along with nonliving components.
What is an ecosystem?
What do we call animals that eat only plants?
What is a herbivore?
What are 5 examples of invasive species in the world?
Tiger Mosquito, Python, Zebra Mussels, Kudzu, Asian Karp....
Humans introduce a new snake species to a prairie to eliminate ground hogs?
Biotic (Predation)
The process of making new products from materials that were used in another product.
What is recycling
This shows organisms found in and habitats such as desert, grassland, forest.
Terrestrial Food Chain
A food chain passes ________ from one living thing to another.
What is energy?
This process allows for plants to gain their energy from the sun?
A dead tree is considered a (biotic) or (abiotic) factor?
Biotic (It was once living)
What animal is known for laughing when tickled?
What is a rat?
Organisms that eat producers and are often called herbivores.
A carnivore that hunts other animals
What is a predator?
This is the method by which most invasive species are spread?
What are humans?
An ox-bird eats the parasites of the skin of a cow.
Biotic (Mutualism)
What was the first pixar movie?
What is Toy Story?
The non living factors within an ecosystem that affect the area?
What is abiotic factors?
What do we call the struggle between organisms for the same limited resource?
What is competition?
What invasive fish was introduced into Lake Victoria in the 1950's but the lake's ecosystem was not ready for it?
What are Nile Perch?
Worms are unable to living in a certain environment because of the soil type.
Abiotic
What is the largest country in the world?
What is Russia?