What are some abiotic factors needed in ecosystems?
Air, Water, Sunlight, Soil
An octopus's ability to change color is most likily used to.....
protect themselves from predators
What do producers do to get food?
Photosynthesis
Where does all the energy in an ecosystem orgiginate from?
The Sun
Which process makes sunlight energy available to all organisms in an ecosystem?
Photosynthesis
The white fur on a polar bear is an example of what type of physical adaptation?
Camouflage
What type of organism is the egret in the food chain?
carnivore
Put these in order Lion hyena sun zebra grass
Sun -> Grass -> Zebra -> Hyena -> Lion
Which characteristic is used to categorize aquatic biomes?
The amount of salt in the water
Oxpeckers are birds that land on zebras and eat ticks that live on the zebras' skin. Ticks are insects that feed on the blood of animals. What sort of relationship would there be between an oxpecker and a tick?
Predator
What do producers release that helps consumers breathe
Oxygen
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
An omnivore
What type of organism should replace the X in the food web?
Omnivore
A partial food web of a pond is shown below
What type of organism is missing from the food web?
Decomposers
Male penguins huddling to conserve heat is an example of what?
Behavioral adaptation
Photosynthesis takes place in a structure known as a __________
Chloroplast
When consumers breathe out what type of gas do they produce?
Carbon Dioxide
Where does the fox get its energy from?
The rabbits and mice.
If a coyote and rattle snake both eat mice, but the rattle snake also eats frogs, what would happen to the coyote and rattle snake if all mice were to die.
Coyotes would lose their source of food. The snakes population would likely decrease as well.
Given the Table, which area is most likely a Desert?
Area 1
Hummingbirds feed on the nectar of flowering plants. In this process, they also pollinate the plants. Which symbiotic relationship does this represent?
Mutualism