Interactions and Ecosystems

Ecosystems

100

Living things in the environment such as:

- Animals

- Plants

- Fungi

- Bacteria

Biotic

200

Non-living things in the environment such as:

- Air

- Water

- Soil

- Sunlight

- Minerals and Nutrients

Abiotic

300

What are the 4 basic needs of living things?

Food, water, suitable habitat, exchange of gases.

400

White fur in snowy areas, camouflage, webbed feet or flippers to swim fast, long beaks for getting insects are all examples of this inherited characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.

Adaptation

500

A symbiotic relationship between two different organisms in which both benefit.

Mutualism

600

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other partner neither loses or gains (neutral).

Commensalism

700

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

Parasitism

Food Chains/Webs

100

These organisms produce food energy for themselves and all other organisms on Earth 

• Use energy from the Sun (photosynthesis) and nutrients in the soil/water to grow

Producers

200

The process by which producers create all of the energy for the ecosystem.

Photosynthesis

300

These are the 3 types of consumers.

- Herbivore

- Omnivore

- Carnivore

400

Organisms that get matter and energy they need from wastes and dead plants and animals

Decomposers & Scavangers 

500

Movement of pollutant through the levels of a food chain so that greater quantities are present up the food chain.

 

Bioaccumulation

600

This organism has the largest population in this food pyramid:

Trees and vegetation.

700

This organism has the lowest population in this food pyramid:

Lion

Interactions

100

Accidental or planned introduction of a non-native species into a community.

Bioinvasion

200

More than one living thing trying to reach the same goal

Competition

300

Animals get their food by killing and eating other organisms

Predation

Carnivore

400

A niche: 

The role an organism plays

500

What type of consumer would the FOX be:

Omnivore

600

The most important R

Reduce

700

The starting point for information that ecologists use when studying an ecosystem. 

Baseline Data

Cycles in the Environment

100

When a liquid changes into vapour.

Evaporation

200

When water that is taken up through a plant’s roots evaporates from its leaves, stem, and flowers.

Transpiration

300

When vapour changes into a liquid. Warm air contains water vapour, which condenses into clouds, fog, or dew.

Condensation

400

When water vapour that forms from the condensation inside of clouds falls as rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

Precipitation

500

Identify one of the processes in this carbon cycle that releases carbon into the atmosphere

- Burning fossil fuels

- animal decay

- respiration

- forest fires

600

The cycle shown in this diagram.

The water cycle

700

This type of precipitation has a pH value below 5.6 because sulfur and nitrogen pollutants reacted with water vapour in the atmosphere.

Acid rain

Human Impacts on Ecosystems

100

When a species no longer exists anywhere on earth

Extinct

200

Organisms that are so rare that they are in danger of becoming extinct

Endangered

300

Species that has been removed from a certain part of their habitat:

Extirpated

400

DDT damaged the eggshells of what organism:

Peregrine Falcon

500

Affected small bugs eaten by geckos. Geckos suffered nerve damage and moved more slowly. Cats started hunted slow moving geckos instead of rats and died from DDT poisoning. Rat population increased and so did the diseases they carry.

An example of:

An example of the Negative Effects of DDT

600

The Great Auk is now:

Extinct

700

Describe a way humans can impact or change an ecosystem.

Be specific

Your Example: