Vocabulary
Parts that work together
What is a system?
Two types of resources in an ecosystem.
What is living and non-living?
An organism that uses the sun to make it's own food
What is a producer?
The main source of energy in any ecosystem
What is the sun?
True or False: Pollution is easy to remove from water and groundwater.
False
Supply of something useful for survival
What is a resource?
True or false: An organism must live in a system with other living and non-living things.
True.
A deer and a bison are an example of this relationship.
What is a competitor?
What is predator?
Helping to clean oil off animals caught in an oil spill is Restoration or Prevention?
Restoration.
Two or more organisms struggling for the same resource
What is competition?
True or false: Organisms always benefit the other organisms in it's habitat.
False
A flea living on a dog is an example of this relationship.
What is a parasite?
What is polluting?
People can help protect ecosystems by passing these protective acts.
What are laws?
A close relationship between two different types of organisms
What is symbiosis?
The specific role of an organism in it's habitat... includes what it eats, where it lives, and more.
What is a niche?
A bird eating bugs off a zebra is an example of this relationship.
What is symbiosis?
Grey wolves in Yellowstone are this kind of species (native or invasive?)
What is native?
What would happen is water did not flow through a cycle?
We would run out of fresh water.
The removal of most of all of the trees in an area
What is deforestation?
Besides the sun and producers, all organims are also dependent on these to complete the cycle of life.
What are decomposers?
Killing a wild animal illegally is called this.
What is poaching?
Apple snails represent this type of species in Mobile, AL.
What are invasive or foreign species?
Recycling is an example of (Restoration or Prevention?)
What is prevention?