Overview
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem?
an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
What is an organism?
Snowy, cold, frozen, and icy
The natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community
What is a food web?
A community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs
What is a population?
Ecosystems
What are places that organisms live in and have all there needs in?
Wet, sourounded by trees, filled with animals, and warm
What are characteristics of a jungle ecosystem?
The struggle between two organisms for the same resources within an environment
What does competition mean?
Water, rocks, soil, and sand
What are main non-living materials in ecosystems?
Producers, consumers, and decomposers
What are the 3 types of organisms?
Sandy, hot, wet, filled with trees and plants, and has animals that can go in water and on land
What characteristics does a beach ecosystem have?
The effect that a pair of organisms living together in a community have on each other
What does interact mean?
Artificial, terrestrial, lentic and lotic
What are the four types of ecosystems?
They can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and maintain homeostasis
What can organisms do?
Steep, lakes and rivers are near, trees, rocks, near the sun, and kind of cold
What characteristics does a mountain ecosystem have?
The match of a species to a specific environmental condition
What is a niche?
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Order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing
What are the main characteristics of organisms?
Muddy, dirty, rocks, plants, lots of water (not always fresh), shade, and man made structures nearby
What characteristics does a pond ecosystem have?
Larger organism that harbours a smaller organism
What is a host?