Terms + Definitions
Consists of all the organisms in a particular region, along with nonliving components.
What is an ecosystem?
Non-living factors.
What are abiotic factors?
Short term response versus response over a long period of time - this is how I distinguish between what two criteria for life?
What is response to outside stimuli versus adaptation?
The two forms of competition.
What is intraspecific and interspecific?
InTRA = Same
InTER = Different
The earth's resources, human needs, and the needs of other species.
What is sustainability?
Ecology. (Define)
What is the study of relationships between two organisms or between an organism and its environment?
A tiger affects the dispersal of gazelle by consuming newborn young. Biotic or abiotic?
What is biotic (predation)?
Organisms interact largely for this reason.
What are limited resources?
The amount of carbon emitted and its environmental impact.
What is ecological (carbon) footprint?
What is the flow of energy, beginning with the sun?
What is sun --> producers --> primary consumers --> secondary consumers --> tertiary consumers --> decomposers?
Niche. (Define)
What are all of the things an organism specifically needs and does within its habitat?
Rainfall affects dispersal of a population by changing a bend in a river between the population. Abiotic or biotic?
What is abiotic?
The six levels of ecological organization, beginning with the largest.
What is biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, organism?
Goal is to provide "clean" energy to power society without negatively influencing the atmosphere.
What is alternative energy technology?
I consume energy and produce waste. What am I?
What is metabolism?
Population. (Define)
What is a group of the same species living in the same area?
Virus. Biotic or abiotic?
What is abiotic?
Name three responses to outside stimuli.
What is flower to sun, removing hand from prickly cactus, shivering when cold, etc.?
Give an example of a parasitic relationship.
What is ticks, tapeworms, beetle on plants, etc.?
NORMAL warming effect when gases trap heat in the atmosphere.
What is greenhouse effect?
Multiple ecosystems that share similar characteristics, such as amount of annual sunlight and precipitation, but that are located in different parts of the planet.
What is a biome?
Give five examples of an abiotic factor.
What are...
1) Soil Type
2) Temperature
3) Climate
4)Water
5)Wind?
The six criteria for life.
What is composed of one or more cells, contains DNA/RNA, capable of growth and reproduction, able to respond to outside stimuli, able to adapt, and has a metabolism?
Commensalism relationship.
What are barnacles and whales or bait fish and manta rays?
Sing the song. You know the one! :)
What is
Cells, Cells, Cells, Respond,
Grow and Reproduce,
Use energy,
Have DNA,
Adaptive Living Dudes?