Environmental Factors and Interactions
Give 2 examples of biotic factors in rainforest
Give 2 examples of abiotic factors in rainforest
biotic: snakes, birds, frogs, trees, grass, bacteria etc
abiotic: rain(water), rocks, soil, air, etc
What is the water cycle?
A cycle for how water transports between the atomsphere and ground(troposphere) evaporation, condensation, precipitation etc.
What is population?
Also what is the difference between a population and community?
Organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time.
Populations only have one species. Communities can have multiple species.
What is the major difference between a food chain and food web?
Food webs are often much more complicated than the food chain. Food webs could have several different species that are eaten by another etc.
What does the C stand for in CER? What is its purpose?
Claim, making a statement answering a question
mosquitos and humans are a example of what type of interaction?
A. Predation
B. Mutualism
C. competition
D. Parasitism
E. Commensalism
D. Parasiticm
What is the law of conservation?
Energy and matter cant be created nor destroyed it can only change forms. Even when energy is lost or gained it only changes into another form of energy.
Scientist estimate that earth can sustain a human population UP TO 10 to 11 billion people. What term best describes this?
A. Ecosystem
B. Endangerment
C. Carrying Capacity
D. Carrying Gravity
C. Carrying Capacity
What is the name for the type of organism that is on top of the food chain?
Apex Predator( ex. eagles, humans, lions, tigers etc)
What does the E stand for in CER? What is its purpose?
Evidence, requires the use of data graphs and so on.
Some animals flash their feathers to other animals to either attract mates or to warn other animals to back off. What is this a example of?
A. Predation
B. Competition
C. Symbiosis
D. Extinction
B. Competition
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Nitrogen moves from atmosphere to ground and then into living organisms. As organisms pass away, decomposers break their bodies which sends the nitrogen back into the atmosphere.
Red panda are rarely seen in the wild nowadays. What word best describes them?
A. Endangered
B. Extinct
C. Overpopulated
DAILY DOUBLE: What might be a factor that contributed to this circumstance?
A. Endangered
BONUS: Food supply shortage, drought, climate change, invasive and introduced species, deforestation, erosion, etc
Snakes are often classified as a tertiary consumer? What does tertiary mean?
3, They follow the primary and secondary consumer.
What does the R stand for in CER? What is its purpose?
Reasoning, connects evidence to claim through vocab and scientific law.
Crows mark a target for wolves to kill. Both the wolves and crow get food in the end. What two interactions are observed?
A. Parasitism and Predation
B. Mutualism and Predation
C. Mutualism and Competition
D. Parasitism and Competition
B. Mutualism and Predation
What is the purpose of a graph?
Display data, observe correlations, connections, visualizations
What are some of the consequences of overpopulation?
Affected carrying capacity, resources such as food water shelter destroyed, ecosystem destabilization etc.
Acccording to the energy pyramid, what category has the 2nd most amount of organisms? Why?
Primary consumers, because it is the second longest. Also because they feast on the producers which have the most amount of organisms in the food pyramid.
What does the word Turbidity mean?
The clearness of water
Fill in the blanks:
Bee and flowers are a example of _________. Flowers provide the bees __________ and bees provide the flower__________.
Symbiosis/mutualism, nectar, pollen/pollination
What are the 5 requirements for a graph?
Scale, title, labeled x axis, labeled y axis, points of data
These are a few of the populations of cats in a zoo.
Lion: 90
Tiger: 30
Cheetah: 60
Leopard: 20
What percent of the population are cheetahs?
30 percent
As you move up the energy pyramid, is energy lost or gained?
Energy is lost due to life processes within organisms( cellular respiration, metabolism etc) and heat. For every rise in the trophic level 90 of energy is lost.
What makes something an animal?
Multicell eukaryotic, specialized cells, collagen around the cell, energy through eating, digest food