Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis.
What are producers?
Two or more organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
What is the definition of a Tidal Pool?
What is the water left behind when the ocean recedes at low tide.
True or False: Energy increases as it moves through the food chain.
What is False? (energy decreases as it passes through each trophic level.)
Non-living factors in a community are called.
What is abiotic factors?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
What were the two types of seaweed we observed at Tin Can Beach?
What is Rockweed & Knotted Wrack?
True or False: Decomposers are needed to reset the food web?
What is true? (decomposers break down the decaying organisms and return these nutrients to the soil.)
Something that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
One individual?
What is a organism?
What is the term that corresponds with this definition: "any heritable (passed on by parents) trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment."
What is an Adaptation?
True or False: competition is one of the 3 factors that affect population growth?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
Two or more populations of species.
What is a community?
Give an example of a sessile organism we saw at Tin Can Beach.
What is Rockweed, Knotted Wrack, Sea Lettuce, Barnacles, Irish Moss, Green Algae?
What is True? (the s-shaped growth curve is the sustainable population number that they keep returning to: aka carrying capacity.)
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
•Obtain their food by eating other organisms (eat plants, animals or both to get energy) because they cannot make their own food.
What is a heterotroph?
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
List the 4 abiotic factors we tested for at Tin Can Beach.
What is temperature, salinity, turbidity, acidity?
What happened to the reindeer in our factors that affect population growth presentation?
What is a population crash?