Water cycle
Adaptations & Roles
Ecosystems & Roles
Relationships & Roles
Pot Pouri
100
The formation of water droplets making clouds is this process.
What is condensation
100
A flea living on a dog and drinking the dog's.
What is a parasite or parasitism?
100
These are the living and non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic and abiotic?
100
These organisms are responsible for the decay of dead matter in the ecosystem.
What decomposers?
100
The concentration of toxins in top-level predators grows because of the toxins accumulated by their prey species.
What is biomagnification.
200
Water that falls on the ground collects in lakes and rivers through this process.
What is run-off?
200
A structural change in an animal that, over time, helps its species to survive and compete better in its ecosystem.
What is an adaptation.
200
This is the study of communities of organisms living together in an area.
What is ecology?
200
In a food web these are the only organisms that produce their own food.
What are producers (plants)?
200
The ultimate source of energy for all living things.
What is the sun?
300
Plants releasing water into the air.
What is transpiration or Evapotranspiration.
300
The relationship between remoras and sharks where the remorah gets food and the shark gets parasites removed, thus they both benefit.
What is mutualism?
300
Food, Shelter, Gas exchange and Water.
What are the needs of living things?
300
Animals that eat the remains of other animals.
What are scavengers?
300
These show the transfer of energy within an ecosystem
What is a food web?
400
Moisture and water returned to earth as rain, snow or sleet.
What is precipitation?
400
Animals that eat the remains of other animals.
What are scavengers?
400
Contaminants in an ecosystems that cause damage to parts of the ecosystem.
What is Pollution.
400
Secondary and tertiary consumers
What carnivores and omnivores?
400
The first organisms to start creating an ecosystem from nothing.
What are pioneer species?
500
Water sources that we generally don't see.
What is ground water?
500
Herbivores fill this role in an ecosystem.
What primary consumers?
500
A substance that is directly harmful to organisms.
What is a toxin?
500
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
500
Changing in species in an ecosystem over time starting with small vascular plants then progressing to shrubs and trees.
What is secondary succession?
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