Just a Mix of Stuff
An organism can have more than one role/job in a community. This role/job is called this.
What is a niche?
What is the struggle between organisms to survive when they attempt to use the same resources?
What is Competition.
All energy on the Earth starts from this and passes on from one organism to the next.
What is the Sun?
What is the process called when liquid water changes into water vapour?
What is evaporation?
What are the first organisms to grow in a new area during primary succession often called?
What is pioneer species?
What is a group of organisms that can successfully REPRODUCE among themselves.
What is a species?
Many species of orchids (flower) attach themselves high up onto the trunks of trees to be safe and to have constant rain water. The trees don't seem to mind. This is what type of a relationship?
What is commensalism?
What are organisms that eat other organisms called? What are the 3 main types?
What is Consumers? What are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores?
What is the process called when water vapour cools and forms tiny liquid droplets in clouds?
What is condensation?
What is an example of a natural resource?
______ - characteristics that allow an organism to survive.
What is adaptation.?
1. These organisms are like "recyclers" in the ecosystem. They break down and absorb dead or waste materials. 2. What is the animal that eats dead organisms?
What is Decomposers, Scavengers?
Ecosystems are interactions between these two factors.
What is abiotic (non-living) and biotic (living) factors?
What process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide and make sugars?
What is photosynthesis?
A lava flow cools and hardens, leaving bare rock. What type of succession will occur?
What is primary succession?
The term that is used to describe two different species that live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
What is Symbiosis?
Nemo and his dad, both silly clown fishes, live in a sea anemone. The type of relationship they have with the sea anemone is called.
What is mutualism?
What is the difference between Food chain and Food web?
What is Food chains show single connections between organisms and Food webs show multiple connections between organisms.?
What process releases carbon dioxide when organisms break down sugars to release energy?
What is cellular respiration?
What is the term used to describe the using of resources no faster than they can be renewed and discharging waste no more quickly than they can be absorbed.
What is Sustainability?
Describe an adaptation of any animal and how it helps them survive.
Various answers.
This type of relationship is where the 1) ____ is harmed and the 2) ______ benefits. An example would be 3) __________.
What is 1) host; 2) parasite; 3) tapeworm and human (many other potential answers).
About how much energy is passed to an organism according to the Energy Pyramid? Where did the other energy go to?
What is 10%? It was lost as heat.
After heavy rain, some water flows over the land into a river. What is this process called?
What is surface run-off?
Define: Bioaccumulation
What is the accumulation of chemicals in an organism?