Terrestrial Ecosystems
What is the coldest ecosystem?
Tundra
What type of aquatic ecosystem are rivers, lakes and ponds?
Freshwater
What are the 5 types of symbiotic relationships and competitive relationships?
mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, competition and predation.
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
Mutualism, commensalism and parasitism.
How much energy is transferred at each level of a trophic pyramid?
What is 10%
Flat area with grass and few trees. You can see buffaloes, coyotes and foxes.
Grasslands
What type of aquatic ecosystem are oceans and seas?
Saltwater
Describe competitive relationships.
When organisms compete with each other to survive.
What are the two types of competitive relationships?
Competition and predation
What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph?
Autotrophs make their own food and heterotrophs get their food by consuming other orgranisms.
Describe the Rainforest
Hot and humid climate
Abundant rain
Trees, shrubs, iguanas, monkeys and toucans.
What animals can be found in oceans and seas?
Whales, sharks, octopuses and dolphins.
What type of relationship do organisms depend on each other to survive?
Symbiotic
What type of relationship is this?
A flea bites a dog to feed on it’s blood. The flea benefits but harms the dog.
Parasitism, symbiotic relationship
What is the source of all energy found in Earth's biosphere?
The Sun
Name all 6 terrestrial ecosystems.
Grasslands, deciduous forest, rainforest, tundra, Mediterranean forests, deserts
Which ecosystem is home to turtles, otters and salmon?
Rivers
What are the two types of relationships/interactions that living things have with each other?
Symbiotic Relationship and Competitive Relationship
What type of symbiotic relationship benefits each organism? For example, the relationship of bees and flowers.
Mutualism
What 2 factors are most important when it comes to terrestrial biomes?
What is temperature and rainfall
What are terrestrial ecosystems
Ecosystems situated on land and surrounded by air
What are aquatic ecosystems?
Ecosystems situated in water.
Give an example of a competitive relationship.
When some animals share the same territory and compete for food.
Give an example of commensalism (English or spanish)
Various. Example: spiders building webs on plants. The spider benefits and the plant is unaffected.
Give an example of a direct and indirect effect.
Direct effect - mice eating grain. The grain is depleted because of the mice. Indirect effect - more snakes are found in the area because of the mice population....the snakes eat the mice and the grain population isn't depleted because the mice aren't eating it anymore.