Who am I?
I get eaten by predators.
What is a prey?
algae --> anchovies --> squid
What is a producer?
Rabbits were brought to Australia by European settlers and is therefore considered this.
What is an invasive species?
These are non-living factors in an environment, such as light, water, and soil, that affect the survival and reproduction of organisms.
What are abiotic factors?
This type of fire can burn tall trees and cause the death of a large number of animals.
What is a wild bushfire?
I only eat meat (other animals).
What is a carnivore?
wattle --> termites --> echidna --> dingo
What is a secondary consumer?
The northern Pacific sea star was accidentally brought to Australian on the hull of ships. Without any natural predators or competitors, this has happened to its population.
What is "the population uncontrollably increased"?
This adaptation helps the leaf-tailed gecko blend into its environment to avoid predators.
What is camouflage?
The main difference between a bushfire and traditional burning practices.
I can photosynthesize to make my own energy.
What is a producer?
The combination of multiple food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A consequence of cane toads have the same predators as frogs but also being poisonous.
What is out-competing frogs by having no/fewer native predators?
This desert-dwelling plant has adapted to store water in its thick stems and leaves, allowing it to survive prolonged droughts.
What is a cactus?
**OR other succulent plants
This might happen if there was no more cultural burning.
What is "there would be more fuel for wild bushfires OR ecosystem biodiversity would be overtaken by invasive species"?
I eat tertiary consumers.
What is a quaternary consumer?
Organisms responsible for recycling nutrients.
What are decomposers?
This animal control strategy is designed to prevent damage to crops and grazing land by excluding unwanted species, such as rabbits, foxes, and dingoes.
What is the rabbit-proof fence?
This is the population change that is expected as rising salinity causes salt to penetrate the soil in Australia.
What is a decline in plant populations?
The reason cultural burning practices leave the ground more fertile.
What is "recycling nutrients"?
This is the lowest trophic level that an apex predator can be.
What is a secondary consumer?
This happens to the energy efficiency as you go up trophic levels.
What is "it goes down/decreases"?
Rabbits ate most of the vegetation in their area, not only taking away food from other herbivores but also doing this to the soil.
What is erosion?
Beavers building a dam to alter the natural direction of water flow is this type of factor.
What is a biotic factor?
The reason cultural burning specifically benefits native plants.
What is "native plants need smoke and high temperatures to germinate OR kills competition"?