Vocabulary
This can be described as the study of the relationships between organisms and their environment.
ecology
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants/ Producers?
What part of the plant cell helps with photosynthesis?
Chloroplast
What type of worms did we build habitats for?
blackworms
Give an example of a mutul relationship between two species
monkeys eat fruit off trees
They drop seeds and more trees grow
What can be defined as a biological community of organisms and their environment?
an ecosystem
What is used to show the flow of energy in a food web?
arrows
What do plant cells have around the outside that animal cells do not?
cell wall
What are three things that blackworms need in their habitat?
water, leaves, bark, bacteria
Give an example of a keystone species
wolves of yellowstone
What is a population? Give an example.
groups of individuals of a single species that live in the same place.
ex: all of the frogs in a pond
Which type of plankton gets its energy from the sun?
phytoplankton
(plant plankton)
Why doesn't the part of an onion that we eat do photosynthesis?
it grows underground (no sunlight)
Write down 3 of the 8 biomes you had to choose from in class
freshwater, marine, desert, tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, grassland, tropical rain forest
Put the following words in order from smallest to largest:
biome, habitat, community, population, ecosystem
SMALL - population - habitat - community - biome - ecosystem LARGE
The process by which producers get their energy.
photosynthesis
A predator at the top of a food pyramid might be an example of which kind of importation species?
keystone
What is created by photosynthesis?
oxygen and sugar (glucose)
What is an example of competition we saw during field study?
trees competing for space
animals competing for food
Explain how a keystone species effects its ecosystem
Keystones are species that control the population sizes of other species in their environment. Typically, they are the top predator. If they are removed, the grazers reproduce too much and take over - eating all the producers (plants) in the area
A type of symbiotic relationship when one organism hunts and eats another.
predator/prey
Create a food web of a forest in Oregon. Include at least three organisms and include arrows.
answers vary...
When using a microscope... how do you calculate the total magnification?
eyepiece x objective
define habitat
a physical space that provides all the things a species needs to survive
If you became an ecologist, what field of study would you be most interested in? Discuss at your group and write down your answers.