Ecosystems
What is Ecology?
Interactions between organisms and their environments.
What are the five main symbiotic relationship?
Competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism
Refers to the flow of energy from one tropic level to another within an ecosystem
Name the five kingdoms in classification
Protoctists, prokaryotes, fungi, plants, animals
What are bar graphs best used for?
Showing percentage
What are biotic and abiotic factors?
Biotic factors are living factors such as animals, fungi, plants
Abiotic factors are non-living factors such as habitat or weather
Define mutualism
two organisms live closely together and both of them benefit.
How much energy gets pass on from each trophic level?
10%
Animals can be further divided into ____ and ____?
vertebrates and invertebrates
What ar line graphs best used for?
looking at changes over time
What are the six hierarchal levels in Ecology?
Organisms, population, community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere
Identify the symbiotic relationship --> Lioness and Zebra
Predation
Most primary consumers eat plants so they are called _______?
Herbivore
What is the key difference between vertebrates and invertebrates?
vertebrates: have backbone, can be warm or cold blooded
invertebrates: no backbone, cold blooded
What are dependent variables?
What are producers?
Make their own food
Mutualism
Tertiary consumers also known as ____?
Apex predators
Key characteristics of Arthropods
Hard outer shell and bilaterally symmetrical
variables that change
What are consumers?
organisms that feed on food that are originally made by a producer.
What is adaptation?
What are some examples of secondary consumers?
snakes, frogs, baboons
What are the hierarchy levels in taxonomy?
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Families, Genus, Species
Which axis does independent and dependent variable belong to?
independent: x axis, dependent: y axis