Types of symbiotic relationships
What type of relationship is when two species both benefit from one another?
Mutualism
What is an example of abiotic factor?
Plants using soil and sunlight.
What does biotic mean?
Something that was or was once living
Examples of living things in an ecosystem include:
plants and water, or, plants and animals?Plants and animals
What is a food chain?
A food chain is a simple model that shows feeding relationships within one pathway.
What type of relationship is when a tree allows for a bird to build a nest on it and raise it’s family?
Commensalism
What is a niche?
The role of an organism in its habitat.
Is a bluebonnet flower abiotic or biotic?
Biotic
What is a population?
A population is all the organisms of one species living in the same area.
Is a food web more complex than a food chain?
Yes
What type of relationship is when a parasite attaches to an organism and benifits, but the host is harmed?
Parasitism
True or false:
Maple trees and oak trees compete for growing space.
True
What does abiotic mean?
Something that is non-living
What are communities?
A community is made up of all the populations living in an area.
True or false:
The sun is the main energy source for every food web.
True
Which symbiotic relationship is when two different species; where one is a predator, and the other organism is prey?
Predation
What is the definition of limiting factor?
When something causes growing to slow.
True or False:
A mountain is biotic.
False
Is a group of the same species of fish a population?
Yes
If a raccoon eats a turtle is it predator or prey?
Predator
Which type of relationship is when a lion hunts a zebra?
Predation
What is the definition of the word competition?
Competition is a struggle between organisms to survie as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the same place at the same time.
Is dead plant biotic of abiotic?
Biotic
Is a single raccoon a population or organism?
Organism
Where do producers get their energy from?