Habitat
What is a Habitat?
All the components for a single species to survive.
All energy begins from where?
From the Sun
What is Predation?
Where one organism survives at the expenses of the other.
Why do scientist look at the density and dispersion of a population?
In order to track the number of people and where they live for both health and to predict changes in an area.
What are the three Domains?
Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaryote
Artic and Antartic
What are the two sources of energy in an ecosystem?
Producers and Consumers
What is Mutualism?
Were two species benefit from interacting with each other.
growth rate
What are protist?
A group of single cell organisms that do not fall nicely in any other kingdom do to their mixed characteristics.
What are the 5 types of habitats.
Terrestrial, Aquatic, Amphibians, Arboreal, Aerial
What are the 4 types of Consumers?
Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore, Decomposer.
What is Parasitism?
Where one species benefits by weakening another species.
Name some limiting factors.
water
space
food
disease
What are fungi response for?
Breaking down dead matter
What are bees important to the habitat?
They are pollinators that helps plants the foundation species in an habitat to grow.
What is a trophic level?
Food Pyramid that displays each step in a food web with the number of organisms at each step.
What is Commensalism?
Where one species benefits but the other is neither harmed nor benefit.
limiting resources.
What are the two types of plants and their role?
Angiosperm produce food while gymnosperms produce lumber
Why is biodiversity important in a habitat?
It helps the organisms recover after a disaster such a fires or floods.
What is the rule of 10?
That as you go up the food web or chain the organism only receives 10% of the energy from the previous organism.
What is competition?
Is when two or more organisms attempt to use the same limited resource.
What is trophic Cascade?
Rapid recovery of an ecosystem by introducing a predatorial species.
Animals are broken down into to groups what are they and why?