Vocab Definitions
Adaptations
Symbiosis
and interactions
and interactions
Ecosystem Threats
Food Webs
100
A non-living factor
What is ABIOTIC?
100
Any feature that helps an organism survive better in its habitat is a ____________
What is ADAPTATION?
100
In this type of interspecies relationship, two different species want to eat the same food source
What is COMPETITION?
100
Many polar ecosystems are at risk because higher temperatures are melting icebergs. What ecosystem threat is causing this?
What is CLIMATE CHANGE?
100
An animal that eats a grasshopper would be what type of consumer?
What is SECONDARY CONSUMER?
200
Interdependent plants and animals in a habitat
What is COMMUNITY?
200
Polar bears having white fur while living near snow is an example of a __________ adaptation
What is a STRUCTURAL adaptation?
200
In communities, some organisms eat other organisms to survive. The organism that is being EATEN is the ________.
What is PREY?
200
Rabbits did not previously live in Australia and when they entered they reproduced rapidly and ate plants needed by native small mammals. This is an example of which ecosystem threat?
What is INTRODUCED SPECIES?
200
Food chains rely on __________ to make the food by converting sunlight into sugar in photosynthesis
What are PRODUCERS?
300
The science of the relationships between organisms and their environment
What is ECOLOGY?
300
Spines on cacti that make animals less likely to eat them are a _____________ adaptation
What is STRUCTURAL?
300
An oxpecker gets its food by eating ticks off a rhino and this helps the rhino get less bites. This is an example of which symbiotic relationship?
What is MUTUALISM?
300
Elephants are often killed so their tusks can be used to make ivory jewellery and as a result are now endangered. What ecosystem threat is this an example of?
What is POACHING?
300
What type/s of consumer is the bird in this food web?
What is PRIMARY AND SECONDARY consumers?
400
The plants and animals in an area would be the _______ factors
What is BIOTIC?
400
When organisms move closer to one another and huddle to stay warm this would be a _____________ adaptation
What is BEHAVIOURAL?
400
When mistletoe grows in a tree it steals its water and nutrients. This is an example of what type of relationship?
What is PARASITISM?
400
The Tasmanian Devil is endangered because of life threatening facial tumours. This is an example of which ecosystem threat?
What is DISEASE?
400
What type/s of CONSUMER is the bird in this food web?
What is SECONDARY AND TERTIARY consumer?
500
The interaction between the biotic and abiotic factors in one area makes up the ___________
What is ECOSYSTEM?
500
If a butterfly creates poison or a foul tasting chemical to make predators avoid it, this would be a _________ adaptation
What is a PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation?
500
In this type of symbiotic relationship, one organism is benefited and the other is unaffected
What is COMMENSALISM?
500
Gorillas are endangered largely because of mining for coltan in the environments for mobile phones. This is an example of what ecosystem threat?
What is HABITAT LOSS?
500
What TROPHIC LEVELS does the Lion belong to?
What is TROPHIC LEVELS 3, 4 and 5?