Eco Vocab
What is the Vocab term for all of the living organisms in an ecosystem?
Community
An organism that eats when it hunts and kills is referred to as a
predator
Bees get nectar from flowers, and transfer pollen from one flower to another in the process. What form of symbiosis?
Mutualism
the sun
less than 7
If a group of organisms are all of the same species, this group is referred to as a
autotrophs make their own carbohydrates rather than needing to eat carbohydrates. autotrophs accomplish this through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
Barnacles attach to a whale's skin to get a place to live and access to food as the whale moves through the ocean. The whale is unaffected. What form of symbiosis?
Commensalism
The direction of arrows in a food chain or food web indicates what?
the flow of energy
Name one chemical that causes acid rain
Sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides
abiotic
An organism that eats plants is referred to as a(n) producer/consumer/decomposer
consumer
Epiphytic orchids, like some types of orchids, grow on trees to get better access to sunlight, while the tree is not harmed or benefited by the orchid's presence. What form of symbiosis?
Commensalism
consumer
Does acid rain always fall where the pollution originates?
No. Wind carries the chemicals in the air to other locations.
Things that impede the unending growth of a population are called
Limiting Factors
If an organism cannot properly digest plants / cannot gain nutrition from plants, but eats animals and gains nutrition from animals, that organism is a(n)
carnivore
The acacia tree provides ants with food and shelter in its thorns. In return, the ants protect the tree from herbivores and other insects. What form of symbiosis?
Mutualism
A student draws a food chain with three arrows pointing at eagles. What does this indicate?
The eagle consumes the three organisms from which each arrow originates
Explain why acid rain is considered a significant issue?
It changes the pH of aquatic ecosystems, altering the ecosystems, biomagnifying, and potentially reducing biodiversity by killing off many organisms.
The maximum sustainable number of organisms of a given species that an ecosystem can support is referred to as
carrying capacity
An organism that secretes chemicals that break down dead plant and animal material to gain nutrients and also supply nutrients to the soil / ecosystem
decomposer
the tapeworms in an animals intestines are different than the microbiome bacteria in an animals intestines. Which form of symbiosis for each case?
Tapeworm = parasitism
microbiome bacteria = mutualism
Scavengers are autotrophs/heterotrophs and only eat _____________
heterotrophs, dead organisms
Explain why population increase is significant to acid rain?
More people = more production/transportation/industrial and commercial demand, so more of the actions that produce the chemicals that cause acid rain, hence more acid rain and the rain is more acidic.