Ecological Relationships
What is Symbiosis?
A relationship between two different species
What is a carrying capacity?
How much life an ecosystem can support over time
What is a food chain ?
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy with a single pathway
What is camouflage and give an example of an animal exhibiting this trait.
Allows it to blend in and hide from predator
What is tropism?
The turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.
What are the three types of symbiosis?
Mutualism ,commensalism , and parasitism
What is an energy pyramaid?
A pyramaid that shows the amount of energy in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
A food web is a complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community.
Why do birds have different shaped beaks?
They eat different things.
Plant hormones serve as chemical messengers between cells and tissues. Auxin is a plant hormone that causes the cells on the shady side of a plant shoot to elongate. The response enabled by auxin is known as —
phototropism
The nodules contain bacteria that fix nitrogen for the plant. The plant supplies the bacteria with nutrients. What symbiotic relationship is shown between a legume plant and nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
What is mutualism
what is the number of species in an ecosystem?
Population
This consumer eats both plants and other consumers.
Omnivore
What is a predator?
an animal that eats another animal
Describes how a plant’s root system and shoot system work together? Think about the Xylem!
The xylem tissue in leaves transports water and minerals that are absorbed by the roots.
what is mutualism?
When both organism can benefit
What is biodiversity?
Lots of life in an ecosystem
A type of consumer that eats primary consumers is called ____________.
secondary consumer
What is prey?
Something that is eaten by another animal
What is biomass?
organic matter used as a fuel
the total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume:
Consequences of ENSO
drought, floods, severe weather
What is a limiting factor?
Something that is in competition to get or restricts the number of individuals in an ecosystem
What source provides 100% levels of energy, even though the receiver of that energy does not consume 100% of that energy?
The Sun
What are talons?
Sharp claws
What is considered a renewable resource?
Coal
Natural Gas
Wood
Solar Panel
Oil
wood,solar panel