Food Webs & Ecosystems
A non-living factor of an ecosystem, such as warm summer temperatures or a river.
What is an abiotic factor?
Unlike consumers, these organisms get their energy directly from the sun.
What are producers?
A dog sitting on command or a monkey riding a bicycle are examples of this type of behavior.
What is a learned behavior?
This interaction is illustrated when a hare and a lynx attempt to drink from the exact same river.
What is competition?
This is the name given to a scientist who specifically studies ecosystems.
What is an ecologist?
A living organism in an ecosystem, such as an Asian black bear or a maple tree.
What is a biotic factor?
The consumer category that describes the grey wolf based on its diet of other animals.
What is a carnivore?
A groundhog hibernating or a spider spinning a web are examples of this type of behavior.
What is an instinct?
This specific type of symbiosis refers to an interaction that directly helps both partners involved.
What is mutualism?
The specific task God assigned to humans to manage, care for, and rule over the world responsibly.
What is dominion?
This term describes all the individual organisms of exactly one kind living in an area.
What is a population?
The consumer category for the wild boar, because it eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
An adaptation where animals travel long distances to avoid extreme seasonal weather or to raise young.
What is migration?
The specific role or job an organism has in its ecosystem, such as a lynx controlling a mouse population.
What is a niche?
According to a Christian worldview, Christians should learn about ecosystems to be good stewards and to live in habitats without doing this.
What is destroying them?
This is made up of all the populations of different kinds of organisms living together in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
An energy pyramid must always have more producers than carnivores for this specific reason.
What is to provide enough energy for the carnivores?
Animals do this to reduce their breathing and heart rates in order to conserve energy when food supplies are low.
What is hibernation?
These organisms, such as mushrooms, are vital because they break down dead wood and return minerals and nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
From a biblical viewpoint, God designed organisms with the internal ability to adapt for this specific purpose.
What is to survive within a fallen world?
Unlike a single-path food chain, this diagram shows multiple, overlapping food resources for organisms.
What is a food web?
When energy flows from a deer to a wolf on a pyramid, this is the relative amount of available energy passed to the next level.
What is a small amount?
Salmon and red knots use migration primarily for these two critical lifecycle purposes.
What are to reproduce or to raise their young?
In the South Korean forest food web, if the crane population disappeared, these two predator populations would likely shrink next.
What are the boar and lynx populations?
Leaving large fallen branches among forest trees instead of hauling them away allows these specific organisms to thrive.
What are decomposers?