Vocabulary
What is the difference between Biotic and Abiotic in an ecosystem?
Biotic are the living things like plants and animals. While Abiotic are the non-living things like sunlight, air, and water.
What are the three main part to the water cycle?
Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation
What is a food Chain?
is a model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through relationships.
What is Mutualism?
Both animals benefit.
What is the difference between fresh and salt water?
Salinity, The amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is Primary Succession?
Primary Succession is the process by which a barren landscape is gradually transformed into an ecosystem.
What is a habitat?
the place within an ecosystem where an organisms lives.
How do plants and animal get nitrogen from the nitrogen cycle?
The nitrogen in the atmosphere is slit and divided during a rainstorm. The nitrogen is then absorbed into the soil. The plant absorbs the nitrogen from the soil and then the animals eat the plants.
What is a Producer?
is any organism that can make its own food.
What is Commensalism?
One animal is a host and the benefits.
What are the main types of Aquatic Ecosystems?
Freshwater
Wetland
Estuary
Oceans
What is Secondary succession?
occurs when existing ecosystems have been destroyed . An example of this is over farming.
What is a biome?
are a geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar (or like) biotic and abiotic features.
Who does the Oxygen Cycle work?
The plant gets rid of oxygen and take in carbon dioxide. Animals and humans' breath out carbon dioxide and breath in oxygen.
What is a consumer?
They obtain their energy by eating or consuming the producers in an ecosystem.
Parasitism?
One animals is a parasite and takes from the other animal.
What is an Estuary?
Estuaries are regions along coastlines where streams or rivers flow into a body of salt water.
What is aquatic succession?
Aquatic succession is when sediments and decaying organisms builds up and fills in the body of water until the water is all dried up and all that remains is land.
What is Symbiosis?
A close long -term relationship between two species that usually involves an exchange of food or energy.
How do Factories affect the carbon cycle?
Factories release more carbon into our atmosphere. This ends up disturbing the balance of the cycle and increases our greenhouse gasses and can cause climate change and pollution.
What are the differences between a Primary consumer, Secondary consumer, and an Apex predator?
Primary Consumers eat the producers.
Secondary consumers eat the primary consumers.
Apex Predator are the animals that have no known predators on the food web or chain.
What is a predator?
That is an animal that eats another animal for food.
What are Coastal Oceans?
is the ocean shore between the lowest tide and the highest tide
Draw an Example of Primary Succession.
Possible answer:
First the volcano erupts
Then Mosses and mold use the volcanic rock to grow.
The rock becomes broken down into dirt for young small plants to grow.
Finally bigger plants like trees take roots and animals move into a new home.
What is Chemosynthesis?
Is the Process during which producers use chemical energy in matter rather than light energy and make food.
What are the three levels of the energy pyramid and what percent does each level get?
Level 1=100%
Level 2=10%
Level 3=1%
What is Prey?
That is animal that has been eaten for food.
What are the layers of the ocean?
Epipelagic Zone (Sunlight Zone)
Mesopelagic Zone (Twilight Zone)
Bathypelagic Zone (Midnight Zone)
Abyssopelagic Zone (Abyss)
Hadalpelagic Zone (Trenches)