TERMS
The living components of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
More and more droplets condense, they fall back to Earth as rain or snow, also called
A sequence that shows how energy and nutrients are transferred from one organism to another in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
A series of gradual changes that result in the replacement of one community of plants and animals by another
What is succession?
Give an example of a biotic element and an abiotic element
animals, wind
A non-living component of an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
True or False: Plants use carbon dioxide in the process of photosynthesis to produce sugars
True
True or False: a food web is a system of interlocking food chains
True
Succession that develops a community of plants and animals in an area where no living things existed before
What is primary succession?
Name the three types of consumers
Something that only eats plants
The change of state from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
True or False: a secondary consumer is also known as a herbivore
False
Succession that develops a community in an area after it has been disturbed
What is secondary succession?
Occurs when more than one organism tries to obtain the same basic resources in the same habitat
What is competition?
All the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving, physical components of the environment with which they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
Name two ways carbon dioxide is produced
Decomposers break down dead plants/animals, waste from animals, fossil fuels, factories, vehicles
Using these words create a food chain: fox, rabbit, bear, grass
grass -> rabbit -> fox -> bear
What type of succession occurs after a forest fire?
Secondary succession
Name two ways invasive species are introduced
Boats, humans, wood packaging shipped on boats,
An interaction between individuals of different species that benefits both individuals
What is mutualism?
Name the three steps in the water cycle
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is distributed. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
Often the first things to grow in primary succession
What are lichens/mosses?
Species that have been introduced into an area where it did not exist before; often reproduce so aggressively that it replaces some of the original species
What is an invasive species?