Ecosystem Interactions
These organisms use energy from the nonliving environment to power chemical processes within their cells that make their own food
What are producers?
Primary succession takes this amount of time.
What is hundreds of years?
Changing a resource from a usable form to a non-usable form is this HIPPO threat.
What is habitat destruction?
Finish the list: domain, kingdom, phylum, class...
What is order, family, genus, species?
An abandoned farm will be an example of this.
What is secondary succession?
Detritivores are consumers that do this.
What is eat dead things?
Primary succession happens when this is true after a disturbance.
What is soil go bye bye?
Introducing a non-native organism into an environment without controls in place is this HIPPO threat.
What is invasive species?
What is membrance-bound organelles? (will also accept "nucleus")
What is producers AND other consumers?
What is commensalism?
After a glacier recedes, ___.
What is primary succession?
This HIPPO threat removes so many of the members of a species from a place that the ecosystem is thrown out of balance.
What is overharvesting?
Organisms closer together on a branching diagram share _____.
Limited resources lead to this, which drives adaptation. (Think energy pyramid, carrying capacity, etc.)
What is competition?
This is an example of mutualism.
(Answers will vary; both organisms benefit.)
After a forest fire, ___.
What is secondary succession?
This HIPPO threat introduces harmful materials to an area, or naturally occurring materials in harmful amounts.
What is pollution?
This tool asks questions about observable traits to help you identify an organism.
What is a dichotomous key?
This is the definition of parasitism.
What is a form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is harmed (but not consumed)?
What is overpopulation?
Lichen is a hybrid organism composed of these two types of living things.
What is an algae and a fungus?
Left to natural processes, ecosystems will tend toward more and more of this.
What is biodiversity?
This is the correct way to write a scientific name.
What is capitalize the genus but not the species, and put it in italics if typing?
Homologous traits are those that are similar because ___.
What is they share a common ancestor?