Abiotic / Biotic
What are living factors?
biotic
Something that creates its own food (plants)
Organism that consumes plants AND animals
Omnivore
The organism that gets eaten
Prey
What are non-living factors?
abiotic
What is an ecosystem?
The land/environment AND the plants/animals/organisms that live there
Something that eats other things
Predator / Heterotroph
What happens to a consumers population if there is a big drought and all the plants die?
Population decreases / declines
What is an organism that breaks down decaying matter?
Decomposer
Which is abiotic? A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree
a rock
What is it called when water falls down to Earth as rain or snow?
Precipitation
Organism that only consumes meat
carnivore
Which contribute more to an ecosystem's sustainability, a food chain or food web?
Food web
What is it called when a landscape or ecosystem is broken up? (for example, a road is built through an ecosystem)
Fragmentation
Which of the following is an example of a biotic factor: a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall
feather or beetle
What does carbon-dioxide turn into during the process of photosynthesis?
oxygen
Herbivore
What happens to a population when there is sufficient resources (food, water, shelter)?
What are two types of decomposers?
Fungi, Bacteria, Mushrooms, Worms
List 3 abiotic factors
temperature, soil, rocks, water, sunlight, humidity, wind, waves, air, salinity, pH, minerals, gas
Cow farts create methane which is part of which cycle? Lightning is also part of this cycle.
Nitrogen cycle
As we go up in trophic level, how much energy is lost?
About 10%
The animal at the top of the food chain that does not have predators?
Apex predator
Equilibrium