Classifications of Living Things
Tempeature, Water, Sunlight, Soil, Physical Barriers
What are the 2 types of adaptations?
Behavioural and Physical
What is the definition of symbiosis?
a close relationship between two species in which at least one species
What is a trophic level?
A position an organism occupies in an ecosystem
What is population size?
What are the two ways we classify living things?
Where animals live and grow and what they eat
Bears and lions have large claws, what kind of adaptation is this?
Physical Adaptation
What are the three types of symbiosis?
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism
What is the consumer that is eaten by no other organisms called in a food web?
Top Consumer
What is carrying capacity?
The max population size of the species that the environment can support given the amount of food, habitat, water, and other necessities
Name the 4 classifcations of living things based on what they eat
Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore, Scavenger
Birds traditionally nest in trees, what kind of adaptation is this?
Behavioural Adaptation
A symbiotic relationship in which one species benifits while the other species is not affected?
Commensalism
Arrange the following levels in order (bottom to top): primary consumer, producer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer
Tertiary consumer, Secondary Consumer, Primary Consumer, Producer
What is primary succession?
When succession begins in a community where soil is not already present.
What would you call a turkey vulture that eats deceased animals?
Scavenger
Adaptation increases a populaions chance of ________.
Survival
Mosquites bite humans for their blood. What kind of symbiosis is this?
Parasitism
What makes a food chain different from a food web?
A food chain is a sequence of links starting with a producer and ending with a top consumer. A food web is a combination of many food chains with mutliple relationships between organisms.
When a predator population decreases, what happens to the prey population?
It increases
What is the role of a decomposer?
Name a carnivorous plant
Venus Fly Trap, Bladderworts, Sundews
An oxpecker (a kind of bird) eats parasites off a rhinoceros or zebra to get food. What kind of symbiotic relationship is this?
Complete the formula for showing the process of photosynthesis:
Carbon Dioxide +________ + __________ = oxygen + sugar
Carbon Dioxide +WATER + SUNLIGHT = oxygen + sugar
What would happen if a new species was introduced to an ecosystem and it had no predators?
The population would grow out of control!