Relationships between living things and the environment
The interactions between living and non-living things in a particular environment
What is an ecosystem
Plants absorb the sun's energy through this part
What are leaves?
The first species to occupy a barren or lifeless piece of land
What is a pioneer species?
Those whose numbers are declining
What is threatened?
Water, food, energy, oxygen and living conditions
What are the 5 basic needs of all living things
An organism that has to seek out and eat other living things for food
Things organisms compete for
What is food, water and living space?
DDT being sprayed had these
What are unintended consequences?
A bird building it's nest in a tree
The four main processes in the water cycle
What is evaporation, transpiration, condensation and precipitation?
Finding a large distribution of species in an area
What is being adapted to that ecosystem?
When a chemical gets stronger as it moves up the food chain or food web
What is biomagnification?
Physical or behavioral characteristics that help a species survive in its environment
What is an adaptation?
Matter is recycled this way
What is decomposing?
The gradual process by which some species within an ecosystem replaces other species
What is succession?
Used to calculate our ecological footprint
What is energy, materials, land and land we need to dispose of waste?
Recycling and composting are examples
What is reducing the amount of waste?
What is the sequence of energy flow for: rabbit, sun, rose, wolf, earthworm?
What is sun, rose, rabbit, wolf, earthworm
Four factors that can affect an ecosystem
What is bio invasion, competition, predation and weather?
The reason Falcons went from endangered to threatened
What is a captive breeding program?