Interactions Within An Ecosystem
Water is considered to be a biotic or an abiotic factor.
What is abiotic?
These are the three R's when we focus on helping the environment.
What are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle?
A network of interconnected food chains is called this.
What is a food web?
In the water cycle, the water moving down to earth from the atmosphere is referred to as this.
What is precipitation?
When an organism no longer can be found alive on our Earth, it is considered to be this.
What is extinct?
Name five biotic factors.
What are ... (name five living things)?
The difference between pesticides and herbicides.
What is pesticides refer to all "pests", whereas herbicides are intended for "plant pests", such as weeds?
The "clean-up" squads that break down dead organisms are scientifically called this.
What are decomposers?
Grasshopper ----> Robin ----> Domestic Cat ----> Coyote is an example of one.
What is a food chain?
The first thing to grow in the succession of a bare rock area.
What is pioneer species (mosses and lichen)?
A clownfish living in the tentacles of the sea anemone is considered to be this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The name of your impact on the environment.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is your ecological footprint?
I have learned to look both ways before I cross the street. This is considered this type of adaptation as it helps me not get hit by an abiotic organism (a car).
What is a behavioural adaptation?
In a food chain, these organisms would be most affected by a mercury spill in the ocean.
What are humans or apex predators?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Regrowth after a fire would be considered this type of succession.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is secondary?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The five basic needs of living things.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What are food, water, air, habitat, and energy?
Name an example of a chemical that was banned due to bioaccumulation/biomagnification in food webs.
What is DDT or PCB?
The living part of the environment.
What is biotic?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The cycle in which pollutants are stored in an organism and increase and cause further harm over time.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is bioaccumulation?
This type of succession involves no life at the beginning due to an absence of soil.
What is primary succession?
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other neither gains nor is harmed.
What is commensalism?
Using ladybugs to reduce the number of aphids would be considered this type of control.
What is a biological control?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The sequence of energy flow for: rabbit, sun, rose, wolf, earthworm.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is sun, rose, rabbit, wolf, earthworm?
Describe how carbon is cycled throughout the environment.
What is plants take in carbon through photosynthesis; and animals/humans, factories, and automobiles return carbon into the atmosphere?
Name three events that succession would be considered secondary succession.
What are forest fires, deforestation, floods, hurricanes, tornados, or plant diseases?