Show:
Living Things and the Environment
interactions pt 1
Energy Transfer
interactions pt 2
Florida Ecosystems
100
An ecosystem includes these two factors.
What is biotic and abiotic?
100
One species benefits; the other is unharmed
What is commensalism?
100

Organisms that make their own food using light energy are called ______

producers

100

The relationship where one organism (the predator) kills and eats another organism (the prey) is called ______.

What is predation

100

Which Florida ecosystem is characterized by sand and low-lying plants resistant to salt spray and is an important nesting area for birds?

what are dunes

200
All the different populations living in the same habitat and interacting with each other.
What are communities?
200
One species benefits; the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
200
It is a diagram that shows how energy flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
200
The amount of food, water, space, shelter, etc. that are needed for life are found in limited amounts are called ___________.
What are Limiting Factors?
200

Name the largest wetland in Florida mentioned in the content and one service it provides to the environment

The Everglades; it removes waste and pollutants from the water (also provides habitat)

300
temperature, water, oxygen, and sunlight are examples of this.
What are abiotic factors
300
Both species benefit
What is mutualism?
300

The four types of consumers

herbivores- eat plants only 

carnivores- eat animals only 

omnivores- eat both plants and animals 

scavengers- eat things found already dead

300

Explain how an introduced species can become a limiting factor for native species and provide one example or plausible scenario

Introduced species may outcompete natives for food/space or prey on them; example: an invasive fish reduces native fish numbers by eating their young or competing for food

300

name two limiting factors for coral reefs

temperature (too warm/cold causes stress/bleaching)

pollution (reduces water clarity and harms coral)

400

a large region characterized by a specific climate, plants, and animals.

biome

400
An owl bringing blind snakes to its nest. The snake gets to feed on parasites and the owl stays clean.
What is mutualism?
400
It is the diagram that shows all the feeding relationships between living things in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
400

Name and briefly describe the three types of symbiosis.

Mutualism (both benefit), 

Commensalism (one benefits, other unaffected), 

Parasitism (one benefits, other harmed)

400

Describe the difference between a salt marsh and a mangrove swamp and name one limiting factor for each.

Salt marsh: grasses tolerant of salt, limiting factors include water levels and salt levels. 

Mangrove swamp: dominated by mangrove trees with aerial roots used as nurseries; limiting factors include pollution and temperature/salt levels.

500

This term names the group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific area.

What is population

500
One organism is harmed while the other is neither affected nor benefited.
What is Amensalism?
500

how do producers make their own food?

using light energy and carbon dioxide through a process called photosynthesis

500

 Describe how competition affects populations and give one example

 Competition reduces available resources (food/space)

500
He defined Ecology as the science chiefly concerned with may be called the sociology and economics of animals.
Who was Elton?