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Antarctica Flow Chart
100
All LIVING organisms inhabiting the earth.
What are Biotic Factors?
100
Organisms in a food web that can make their own food using photosynthesis.
What is a producer or autotroph?
100
Two different and separate species living together.
What is SYMBIOSIS? or What is a SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP?
100
Life supporting portions of the earth.
What is the BIOSPHERE?
100
The penguin population that is decreasing in Antarctica.
What is the Adelie Penguin?
200
Nonliving parts of the environment.
What are Abiotic Factors?
200
In a food web/chain these organisms eat plants. They are considered Herbivores.
What are primary consumers?
200
When two different species live together and both of them benefit from each other.
What is MUTUALISM?
200
Any unicellular or multicellular form exhibiting all the characteristics of life (a living thing).
What is an ORGANISM?
200
The main ABIOTIC factor responsible for the decline in the Adelie Penguin. (Think about the flow chart)
What is an increase in precipitation (snow/rain)?
300
A group of organisms of one species living in the same place at the same time that interbreed.
What is a Population?
300
In a food chain or food web, these organisms are predators called carnivores.
What are secondary and/or tertiary consumers?
300
When two species live together and one benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is COMMENSALISM?
300
The place in which an organism lives out its life.
What is HABITAT?
300
The 2 BIOTIC factors causing a decrease in the Adelie Penguins.
What are Krill Density decrease and Chinstrap/Gentoo penguin increase?
400
Populations (biotic) and the abiotic factors with which they interact.
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
400
These organisms eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
When two species live together and one of them is helped while the other is harmed.
What is PARASITISM?
400
The part of the water cycle where water from plants is released into the atmosphere.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
400
Factor contributing to the warming air temperature of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
What is a decrease in sea ice extent?
500
The correct order of levels of organization of living things from greatest to least. organism, biosphere, population, ecosystem, community
What is Biosphere, Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organism?
500
These break down dead animals and plants into molecules that can be absorbed.
What are decomposers?
500
The type of relationship between a bee and a flowering plant; bee gets nectar from a flower while pollinating it.
What is MUTUALISM?
500
Water, food, temperature, space, and availability of mates are this type of factor.
What are limiting factors?
500
Factor causing a decrease in Krill Density.
What is decrease in sea ice extent?