Cycles
This cycle does not include the atmosphere, and begins with the weathering (breaking apart) of rocks.
Humans add excessive (too much) carbon into the atmosphere by burning_________ _________.
Fossil Fuels
What is a habitat? What is a niche?
Habitat-where an organism lives
Niches-an organism's role/job
Species that are not native to an area
What is an animal that only eats plants called?
An herbivore
How do animals obtain carbon in the carbon cycle?
By eating plants and other organisms
Plants absorb carbon (CO2) from the atmosphere to carry out this process to make their own food.
Photosynthesis
The type of food a species eat, behaviors, temperature, and tolerating abiotic factors would be examples of?
(Niche or Habitat?)
Niche
How do invasive species affect native species?
They take resources
Organisms such as plants and phytoplankton are able to make their own food by doing photosynthesis. They are also called
Autotrophs
In the nitrogen cycle, what type of organism coverts nitrogen into usable forms such as nitrate and nitrites?
Bacteria
In the water cycle, water goes from a liquid to a gas. What is this called?
Evaporation
A group of species living in the same area is a ______________.
Community
The organism from which a parasite obtains nutrients from is called a
host
Any non living factor
In the water cycle, snow, rain, sleet, and hail, are all examples of
Precipitation
In the nitrogen cycle, where do plants obtain nitrogen from?
From the soil
What is the term for when 2 organisms fight for limited resources?
Competition
What are the 3 types of Symbiosis?
What is an heterotroph?
An organism that has to forage or hunt for food
A consumer
A organism that eats other organisms
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, and runoff are all apart of which cycle?
Water Cycle
In the nitrogen cycle, how is nitrogen transferred between animals and the soil.
(Hint: it includes decomposers)
Dead animals and waste are broken down by decomposers.
Organisms that are originally from an area are known as
Native Species
A flea feeds on a dog's blood. The flea benefits from eating the dog's blood, but the dog is harmed by the flea. This is an example of
Parasitism
Give an example of an autotroph
Plant, Tree, Phytoplankton