Niches and Species Interactions
The three types of symbiotic relationships where species can benefit, be neutral, and/or be harmed.
What is commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism?
These organisms gain energy from other living things.
What are heterotrophs or consumers?
This is another name for a feeding level.
What is a trophic level?
These are the four parts of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration?
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Who is Doja Cat?
A species whose niche is very narrow and can only tolerate a certain type of habitat.
What is a specialist?
These are small pieces of dead and decaying matter.
What is detritus?
Energy at each trophic level decreases by this amount as you continue up the pyramid.
What is 10%?
Increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere contribute to this ecological problem.
What is global warming?
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What is Hakuna Matata.
The entire set of conditions under which an animal can survive and reproduce.
What is a fundamental niche?
These organisms have more food energy available to them because they only eat plants.
What are herbivores?
All organisms in an ecosystem are linked together in these complex networks.
What are food webs?
Volcanic eruptions, burning fossil fuels, forest fires, and respiration
What are ways CO2 enters the atmosphere?
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What is Tiger King?
This type of species plays a vital and uniques role in maintaining structure, stability, and diversity in an ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
These are the six types of consumers.
What are herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, decomposer, detritivore, and scavenger?
A series of organisms in which energy is transferred from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
This is the process of converting atmospheric (N2) into a form producers can use.
What is nitrogen fixation?
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Who is Vision?
A species that serve as an early warning that an ecosystem is being damaged.
What is an indicator species?
Autotrophs produce energy in one of these two ways.
Photosynthesis and Chemosynthesis
Energy, Biomass, and Numbers.
What are ecological pyramids?
This type of bacteria convert nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia into atmospheric N2 gas.
What are denitrifying bacteria?
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Who is David Beckham?