Vocabulary
Non-living things in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic?
A source of supply (food, water, shelter).
What is a resource?
The green and blue pieces of paper.
What represented food and water in the activity?
A specific geographical area with a particular climate.
What is a biome?
Must have this many characteristics to be considered an organism.
Living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic or organism?
These are natural and can never run out or can be replaced within a person’s lifespan.
What are renewable resources?
The deer population is high for several years in the ecosystem so the resources start to become this.
What is low?
This is an example of a biome.
What is tundra, marine, grasslands, forest, or deserts?
Passing of genetics (genes) to offspring.
What is heredity?
Amount of one organism in an area.
What is a population?
These are found in the ground and are in a fixed quantity and cannot be replaced within a person’s lifespan.
What are non-renewable resources?
The deer population is low for several years in the ecosystem so the resources start to become this.
What is high?
An example of this would be a specific coral reef in Hawaii or the Redwood forests in California.
What is an ecosystem?
This is a long term (could be 100's of years) change for organism survival.
What is adaptation or evolution?
Any living biological (biotic) entity (plants, animals, fungi, etc.)
What is an organism?
Fossil fuels, oil, and coal.
What are examples of non-renewable resources?
This is affected/changed when some resources are abundant and others are rare.
What is supply and demand?
This part of extracting a resource drives the supply of the resource.
What is the price or cost (of extraction)?
Using food to create energy.
What is metabolism?
The interaction between living and nonliving organisms in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Things made from both resources. Examples are Paper, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Water Energy, Bricks, Cement, Clothes, Metal, and Food.
What are by-products?
Countries are willing to fight/cheat/elect with this to have certain resources exported and imported.
What is politics?
A biome that includes all the waters of the world.
What is marine?
An organism is "normal", "regulated" to certain conditions that it's body wants.
What is homeostasis?