Easier Flashcards
A living thing is called an ____________
organism
What is a food web?
food web show how plants and animals are interconnected by different paths.
CA
Give two details about secondary consumers
eat primary consumers, also can eat producers
Give an example of a producer
(any plant or algae)
Give an example of an abiotic environmental factor:
(air, water, temperature, soil)
Name a migrating bird that visits Mono Lake
(Calif gull, phalarope, earred greb)
Secondary consumers can be ________________ or __________________.
carnivores or omnivores
Habitat
What is the ability of a living thing to thrive and grow?
Viability
Describe what brine shrimp eggs are doing during the winter months at Mono Lake.
dormant at the bottom of the lake
Name an organism that would be consider prey for an owl.
any rodent or small animal
What is Food?
A form of chemical energy that organisms need to survive.
What is Community?
All the plants and animals in an ecosystem
What part does the floating algae play in the Mono Lake ecosystem?
food for brine shrimp
Name 3 types of decomposers:
fungi, bacteria, insects
What is the relationship of a tick and a warm blooded organism called?
host/parasite
What is the varying conditions of one environmental factor in which an organism can survive.
range of tolerance
As the water level decreased in Mono Lake what increased?
(concentration of salt or salinity)
What is a consumer?
An organism that cannot make its own food.