Symbiosis
What is Symbiosis?
Relationships between organisms that live in the same area.
What is Ecology?
Ecology is a branch of science that studies the relationship between living organisms and their environment.
What is a producer?
Producers are living things that create their own food.
High temperatures, very little precipitation, dry, more reptiles than mammals, nocturnal animals, plants adapted to little water
Desert
An organism that breaks down nutrients and returns them to the Earth
Decomposer
Give an example of a parasitic relationship.
Ticks, tapeworms, beetle on plants, etc.
List 2 biotic factors and 2 abiotic factors
Answers may.
Abiotic: Sun, water, rocks, clouds, dirt, etc
Biotic: Plants, animals, and bacteria
Which one is the consumer? Rabbits, bears, or both?
The answer is both.
Georgia’s biome, trees that lose leaves in fall, 4 seasons, deer, squirrel, oak trees
Temperate Deciduous Forest
When a mosquito bites you, you are the ________ and the mosquito is the _________.
host, parasite
What is a commensalism?
When one organisms benefit from the relationship and the other organism is unaffected.
A series of interconnected food chains that show realistic feeding relationships
Food web
What do omnivores eat?
Both plants and animals.
A cold forest in the north with coniferous trees such as pines, spruce, and fur
Taiga
A close relationship between two organisms that benefits at least one organism
Symbiosis
Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds.
Mutualism
This organism cannot make its own food.
Consumer
What does an arrow represent in a food chain or web?
The flow of energy
Very wet forest with a lot of rain, home to the largest number of plant and animal species
Tropical rainforest
Individuals of the same species in a given area are an example of a ___________
population
What kind of relationship would clown fish and sea anemone be?
Mutualism
Fungi, bacteria and worms are examples of _________
decomposers
What is the difference between a primary consumer and a secondary consumer?
The difference is primary consumers are herbivores and secondary consumers are carnivores.
Both of these biomes are characterized by little precipitation; however, the temperatures are at two different extreme.
Desert and tundra
All of the abiotic and biotic factors in an area.
Ecosystem