Relationships
What is a Symbiotic Relationship?
Two species linked through some kind of relationship.
What is a food chain?
A food chain is a pattern of eating and being eaten. When an animal eats another animal or plant, a food chain develops.
What does biotic mean? What does abiotic mean?
Abiotic- nonliving things in the ecosystem
Why are the roots important part of a plant?
What is the smallest level of environmental organization?
Organism
What are three types of Symbiotic Relationships?
Commensalism, Mutualism, Parasitism
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food web is when two or more food chains connect when a member of one food chain eats a member of another food chain.
What is an herbivore?
An animal that only eats plants.
What is the difference between population and community?
A community is all of the living organism in an environment.
Commensalism
What do the arrows represent in a food chain/web?
Energy being transferred from animal being eaten, to the animal eating.
What is a consumer?
What is a carnivore?
Describe the level of environmental organization: Ecosystem
A system of interacting organisms AND abiotic factors in an area.
A relationship where one species benefits and the other species is harmed.
DRAWING
What is a decomposer? Give one example.
EX. Worms, dung beetle, mushrooms, fungi
What is an omnivore?
An animal that eats both plants and other animals.
If scientists are studying sharks, fish, corral, plankton, and seaweed, what level of organization are they studying?
Community
A relationship where both species benefit.
Mutualism
Energy flows from one level to the next, from bottom to top. Because energy is lost each time an animal eats from the previous level, there are less predators.
What is a scavenger? Give one example.
Ex. Vulture, Condor, Coyote, Hyena
What does ecology mean?
If a scientist is studying the habits of a group of meerkats, what level of organization are they studying?
Population