Terms
The study of organisms and their interactions with other organisms and their environment
What is Ecology?
A food web shows the flow of ______ through an ecosystem and the cycling of _________ within an ecosystem.
What is energy and matter?
An organism that produces its own food.
What is a producer?
The desired goals and features of the solution.
What are criteria?
A mosquito feeding on the blood of a lion.
What is parasitism?
An introduced species that cause or have the ability to cause harm to the environment or people.
What is an Invasive species?
This type of relationship where an owl kills and consumes voles and shrews.
What is an example of predation or the predator prey relationship?
This type of relationship benefits one species while harming the other species involved.
What is parsitism?
A testable question takes this form.
What is how does the independent variable affect the dependent variable?
How does the zebra mussel affect water temperature?
A cone flower being pollinated by a bee.
What is mutualism?
The non living components in an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
An organism that gets its food from dead organisms and the waste from living organisms. Worms, bacteria and fungi are examples of this.
What are decomposers?
When we introduced the crow into our owl's food web, the owl and the crow became ___________ because they eat the same organisms.
What is competitors?
The sun is an _________________ in an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
A mouse and a bird eating the same kind of seed.
What is competition?
The living components in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
An organism that gets its food by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
Energy and matter flow and cycle together through a food web from _________ to ___________.
What is prey to predator?
Something that limits the solution to a problem.
What are constraints?
The original energy source in any food web.
What is the sun?
All of the biotic and abiotic components and all of the interactions between them
What is an Ecosystem?
A hummingbird feeds on plant nectar.
What is mutualism? The hummingbird gets energy from the nectar and the flower gets pollinated. Both species benefit.
The nile perch put in to lake Victoria were able to survive because of this.
What is having no natural predators in the lake besides humans?
Nile Perch and Zebra Mussels.
What are examples of introduced species
The difference between plants and animals.
What is plants are producers, they make their own food through photosynthesis. Animals are consumers, they eat other organisms to get energy.