Zones of Aquatic Ecosystems
Aquatic ecosystems are broken into two groups. What are they?
What are the freshwater and saltwater ecosystems?
Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism are ALL types of this ecological relationship
What is symbiosis?
Individual living things
What is organism?
A niche is comprised of three different things.
What are food, behavior and abiotic conditions?
Living
What is biotic?
The levels of ecological organization from largest to smallest (BBECPO)
What is biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, organism
All the organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
A gazelle is an organism that only eats plants.
What is herbivore?
What is the largest level of ecological organization?
What is the biosphere?
Freshwater ecosystems, like lakes rivers and ponds, can be broken into three zones. These zones are what?
What are the littoral, limnetic and benthic zones?
It is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
It is the smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
A species that can be very dangerous to other species and use all of the resources other species need; non-native
What is an invasive species?
Nonliving
What is abiotic?
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
what is mutualism
Organisms that make their own food are referred to as
What is an autotroph or producer?
organisms that obtain their energy from dead organisms.
What is decomposers?
What are the three parts of the biosphere?
What are the Hydrosphere, Atmosphere and Geosphere?
What are the intertidal, neritic, bathyal and abyssal zones?
It is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is parasitism?
It is a group of organisms of one type in an area
What is the population?
Precipitation, Runoff, Condensation, and Evaporation are all parts of the _______?
Water Cycle or Hydrologic Cycle
Grass, trees, insects are all examples of
What is biotic?
Largest or maximum amount of organisms that an environment can support
What is carrying capacity?
Multiple species living together in one area
What is a community?
Are carnivores that feed on prey.
What is predator
What are the three parts of the geosphere?
What are the crust mantle and core?
What is an estuary?
What are breeding grounds for different fish?
What are areas where rivers flow into oceans?
Mistletoe living on a spruce tree and using its nutrients for food supply is..
What is parasitism?
Organisms of the same kind that are capable of interbreeding with each other?
what is species?
The long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
What is global warming/climate change?
Oxygen, Sunlight, and Water are examples of
What is abiotic?
What type of symbiotic relationship is it where one organism benefits and the other is not affected?
What is commensalism?
Organisms that eat only meat
What is carnivore?
The different levels in a food chain or energy pyramid.
What are trophic levels?
What are the parts of the atmosphere?
What are two adaptations that organisms would need to live in the abyssal or bathyal zones?
What are bioluminescence and resistance to extreme water pressure?
An example is a butterfly feeding on the nectar from a flower while pollinating the flower.
What is mutualism?
This is all the populations together in an ecosystem
What is community?
This type of population growth is represented by 3 things: unlimited resources, rapid growth, and a j-shaped curve.
What is exponential growth?
Factors that limit a population and are ABIOTIC such as: natural disasters, sunlight, temperature, and human activities
What are density-INDEPENDENT limiting factors?
Which type of succession takes longer to complete?
What is Primary Succession?
Any organism that gets nutrition from another source, can't make it's own energy.
What is a heterotroph?
What is 5,438 Kcal of energy?
What are the three states of matter?
What are solid, liquid and gas?
What is the difference between zooplankton and phytoplankton?
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
The definition of Ecology
What is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment
This type of population growth is represented by 3 things: limited resources, carrying capacity, and S-shaped curve.
What is logistic growth?
Factors that limit a population and are BIOTIC such as: diseases, competition, predation, and parasitism
What is density-DEPENDENT limiting factors?
Compare and Contrast: Primary Succession vs. Secondary Succession (at least 2 facts for each type of succession)
Primary : forms new ecosystem, start with no soil, lichens and mosses, after a volcano erupts.
Secondary : recovery of old ecosystem, already has soil, weeds and grasses, after a forest fire
The ____ is the role an organism occupies in a community.
The ____ is the place where an organism lives.
What is niche and habitat?
Rectangular shape that shows the flow of energy in a food chain.
what is energy pyramid
What's the difference between an invasive species and a native species?