Predator and Prey
The prey is the tick and the predator is the tick-eater.
There is a sunny grassland with a rocky pond that has deer, wolves, and bears drinking out of it. What are all of the abiotic factors?
The water in the pond, the sun, and the rocks.
What are the abiotic factors in a desert?
Sand, water, the sun, and sometimes dirt.
A bird is building it‘s nest in a tree. This is an example of…
Commensalism
If there was a sudden increase in rabbits in the grassland, what would happen to the plant population?
It would decrease.
A bobcat sees a deer and eats it, then another predator comes along and eats the bobcat, then that predator gets decomposed into soil when it dies and gives energy to plants. This is an example of…
A food web.
What kind of factor is a dead carcass?
A biotic factor.
What kind of factor is water?
An abiotic factor.
What is mutualism?
Mutualism is a type of relationship where both organisms benefit from symbiosis.
A type of producer dies off and doesn’t grow back in the spring, what would happen to the consumers?
They would decrease.
The polar bear is the apex predator of the arctic, what would happen if it disappeared?
There would be a lot of secondary consumers and not enough plants.
An animal dies and decomposers make it into nutrients in the soil, is the soil once living, never alive, or alive?
Never Alive.
If a squirrel was hiding in a rock from a pack of wolves in the snow what would all the biotic factors be?
The squirrel and the pack of wolves.
What is commensalism?
In a grassland, there are tons of rabbits for all the wolves to eat, if another rabbit-eater gets put into the ecosystem and competes with the wolves, what would happen to the rabbit population?
It would decrease.
A bobcat and a mountain lion fight, which one is the predator and which one is the prey?
The mountain lion is the predator and the bobcat is the prey.
What type of factor is a dead tree stump?
A biotic factor.
Soil holds energy and nutrients from living things, what kind of factor is soil?
An abiotic factor.
If a bird is using a tree for it’s nest, and a bird that has ticks on them builds their nest close, what are all of the relationships listed?
Commensalism and parasitism.
What is an apex predator?
A predator at the top of the food web; they have nobody who eats them.
Define predator and prey.
Predator is an organism that eats another organism and prey is the organism that gets eaten.
What is a biotic factor?
A factor that is living or once living in an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
A factor that in an ecosystem that is not living and never was.
An oxpecker eats ticks off of a rhino but also pecks at its skin. This is an example of…
Mutualism
What is niche?
Niche is how an organism interacts with it’s surrounding area, other organisms, and how it interacts.