Organization
__________ is the relationship that exists when two or more species live together.
What is symbiosis?
The arrow specifically represents this in a food chain or food web.
What is energy?
Transpiration and _______ are the two ways water enters the atmosphere in the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
This word describes a single species that share the same geographic location.
What is population?
This word describes a role or position that an organism has in its environment.
What is a niche?
True/False
Barnacles are a type of autotroph because they primarily sit and filter sea water for their source of energy.
What is false?
This is the process of capturing and converting nitrogen into a form that is usable by plants.
BONUS: add the shocking way this can be done in your response. (+100)
What is nitrogen fixation?
Bonus: Lightning
Bacteria in a pond are an example of a ________ factor in that ecosystem.
What is biotic?
This organism is an example of a parasitic organism because it takes blood and spreads deadly diseases. This organism is widely considered the most dangerous organism to humans.
What is the mosquito?
This best describes an organism that is a mix of a herbivore and carnivore.
What is omnivore?
Phosphorus can be found in rocks. When erosion brings phosphorus out of rocks this is considered a part of the _______-______ cycle.
What is long-term cycle?
A biological community is a large group of ___________ that occupy the same geographic area.
What is populations?
Psudoscorpians are tiny arachnids that attach themselves to larger insects for transportation and relative safety. They don't appear to cause any harm. This word describes this relationship.
What is commensalism?
A _________ is a simple, often linear, representation of of the flow of energy in an ecosystem. Many of those combined and interconnect make ________.
What are Food Chain and Food Web?
Some bacteria do ________ to turn nitrogen back into gas, so it goes back into the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
The Venus flytrap is interesting for being a plant with carnivorous tendencies. This is because it struggles to obtain this nutrient from the soil.
What is nitrogen?
These are all 6 levels of organization in order from smallest to largest.
What is Organism
Population
Community
Ecosystem
Biome
Biosphere?
Pyramids are used to describe something that has a larger base, and values decrease for each higher level. In ecology we talked about what three pyramids. (in your answer you do not need use the word "pyramid")
What are Energy
Biomass
Numbers?
These are the four cycles that we talked about in Cycling of Matter. (only cycle will require two words, the rest you may use one word)
What are water
carbon and oxygen
nitrogen
phosphorus?
This describes an organism that can thrive in what are considered extreme environmental conditions, like extreme heat or acidity.
What are extremophiles?