Ecosystems
An area where biotic and abiotic factors interact.
What is an ecosystem?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Organisms that produce food energy for themselves and all other organisms on earth.
What are producers?
A symbiotic relationship between two different organisms in which both benefit.
What is mutualism?
When a liquid changes into vapour.
What is evaporation?
Define extinct.
What is when a species no longer exists anywhere on earth?
Living things in the environment
What are biotic factors?
The process by which producers create all of the energy for the ecosystem.
What is photosynthesis?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
More than one living thing trying to reach the same goal.
What is competition?
The products of photosynthesis:
What is oxygen and food (glucose)?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The measurement of the amount of materials that each person uses every day.
What is ecological footprint?
What are inherited characteristics that help organisms survive in its environment?
A convenient way to show how energy moves among living things in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
The role an organism plays in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
The four main processes in the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation and transpiration?
The 3 Rs of how you can make a difference in maintaining a sustainable environment.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
Water, rocks, sunlight and air are all examples of this.
What are abiotic factors?
All the populations living in an ecosystem at the same time.
What is community?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The gradual process by which some species replace other species in an ecosystem.
What is succession?
The mode of human transportation that has the smallest ecological footprint.
What is walking?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The five basic needs of all living things
What is food, water, oxygen, energy & suitable living conditions?
Movement of pollutant through the levels of a food chain so that greater quantities are present up the food chain
What is biomagnification?
Accidental or planned introduction of a non-native species into a community.
What is bioinvasion?
Define pioneer species.
What are species that can establish themselves in areas with little or no soil and few nutrients?
Name of an example of a chemical that was banned due to bioaccumulation/biomagnification in food webs.
What is DDT?