The four basic needs for all living organisms.
What is food, shelter/habitat, air, water?
Light, temperature, wind, water, soil are all___
What are biotic factors?
This term is used to describe living (or once living) parts of ecosystems.
What is biotic?
Define habitat.
What is the place where an organism lives?
Describe an adaptation of any animal.
Answers may vary. Example: Polar Bears: Thick skin to help them keep warm
The term that is used to describe two different species that live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
What is Symbiosis?
Plants use the Sun's energy to do this?
What is Photosynthesis?
The term used to describe organisms that eat the food made by producers.
What is a consumer?
Define: Herbivore,Carnivore,Omnivore
What is an organism that eats only herbs/plants, an organism that only eats meat, and an organism that eats both meat and plants?(Respectively)
Define predator.
What is an organism that naturally hunts prey.
The term used to describe a type of symbiosis in which one benefits and the other is harmed.
What is Parasitism?
Give an example of a biotic factor
What is a plant, animal, bacteria, predator/prey?
Give an example of a food chain with at least 4 organisms involved.
Answers may vary. Example: Grass----->mouse----->snake------>hawk------->eagle
Define Independent Variable. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!! How much would you like to wager?
What is the type variable that a scientist changes?
Describe the two different participants in parasitism.
What is the parasite and the host?
This term describes the type of symbiosis in which one is benefiting and one doesn't care.
What is commensalism?
This term is used to describe the process of a certain species changing in order to adjust to it's surroundings.
What is adaptation?
The term used to describe an organism that breaks down the cells of dead or waste materials and absorb their nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
Define: Species
What is an organism closely related to be able to reproduce successfully?
Define producer.
What is an organism that creates its own food?
What is the term used to describe the study of the Ecosystem?
What is Ecology?
The type of organism that causes harm in a Parasitic relationship?
What is a parasite?
Give an example of each: ->A producer ->A predator and prey ->An omnivore ->A decomposer
Answers may vary: Producer: A tree Predator & prey: Owl and mouse Omnivore: Human Decomposer: Bacteria
What is term used to describe a group of interacting populations?
What is a community?
Define: In the salty seeds lab, explain the dependent and independent variables/FINAL JEOPARDY!!!!!
Independent is the salt in the water
Dependent is the bean sprouting