Vocabulary
A species that normally lives and thrives in a particular ecosystem.
What is a Native Species?
A term for when the data in a population graph is trending upwards
What is Increasing?
A term for the living components in an Ecosystem
What is a Biotic Factor?
An organism that produces its own food
What is a producer?
The Invasive Species introduced to Lake Victoria nicknamed "The Miracle Fish"
What is Nile Perch?
Species that exist outside of the species' normal range because of human activity and but does not cause harm
What is an Introduced Species?
The representation of the x-factor on a population graph
What is Time?
A term for the non-living components in an ecosystem
What is an Abiotic Factor?
The term for an organism that eats another living organism
What is a Predator?
An Invasive freshwater mussel that cause harm to native marine species and damage to boaters
What are Zebra Mussels?
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same Habitat
What is a Population?
A term used to describe Zebra Mussels due to the damage cause to environment in their introduced habitat
What is an Invasive Species?
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment as a system.
What is an ecosystem?
The original source of energy in a Food Web
What is the Sun?
The native fish species that the introduced Nile perch species caused to be nearly extinct
What are Cichlids?
The process by which plants convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars and oxygen
What is Photosynthesis?
A resulting affect to the Cichlid population when the Nile Perch were introduced to Lake Victoria
What is decreasing?
A location in an environment where an organism lives
What is a Habitat?
A diagram that models the amount of energy transferred from one organism to the next in a food web
What is a Trophic Pyramid?
An animal that regurgitates pellets of undigested parts of a bird food
What are Owl Pellets?
A term for the negative affect that an Invasive Species can cause on to a Food Web in an ecosystems
A term for when the data in a population graph is rising and falling irregularly in number or amount
What is fluctuating?
Plants use carbon dioxide from the air and water to make their own food while animals get food by eating other organisms
What is the differences between plants and animals?
A diagram that models feeding relationships within an ecosystem
What is a Food Web?
Small rodents that live in the wild and are natural prey of Owls
What are voles?