Ecology
What are biotic factors of an environment?
Living components of the environment
Which biome is the coldest?
Tundra
Both organisms benefit
Mutualism
What is biodiversity?
The variety of life across all levels of organization
Levels of organization smallest to largest
organism, population, community, ecosystem
What are abiotic factors of an environment?
Non-living components of an environment
The two main factors that determine where organisms live are
temperature and precipitation
Parasite benefits and host is harmed
parasitism
Which biome is the most biodiverse?
Tropical Rainforest
Which picture represents an organism?
C
What is a habitat?
A place where an organism lives
What biome is predominantly represented on the east coast of the United States?
Temperate Deciduous Forest
One organism benefits the other is unaffected
Commensalism
As biodiversity increases this also increases
sustainability
Which picture represents a population?
B
What is an organisms niche?
An organism's unique role in an ecosystem
Mr. Steve travels to the desert biome. When he returns to Georgia, he brings back an cactus native to the desert biome. What will happen to the cactus?
It will likely die because the abiotic factors in Georgia are so different than those present in the desert biome
When organisms attempt to use the same limited resource
competition
Sustainability is defined as the ability of an ecosystem to survive over time. How does biodiversity affect the sustainability of an ecosystem?
it helps keep an ecosystem balanced
Which picture represents an ecosystem?
D
The tropical rainforest has abundant rainfall, stays very humid, and experiences an average summer temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. The floor of the tropical rain forest does not get much sunlight. This is a description of the ecysostem's....
Abiotic Factors
What will happen to a grassland biome if we continue to let livestock overgraze the land? HINT: Which biome will the grassland biome convert to?
The grass will be diminished and the grassland biome will convert to a desert biome.
When organisms live in close contact all or most of their lives
symbiosis
Place the pictures in order largest level to smallest level:
D, A, B, C