Ecosystems
All the populations of a different species that live in the same area and interact with one another.
What is a community?
When a species uses appearance to copy or mimic other species.
What is mimicry?
How far away a biome is from the equator
What is latitude?
Where freshwater streams meet with the ocean
What is an estuary?
Makes food in the light, but eats nutrients in the dark
What does an Euglena do?
An area that includes abiotic and biotic factors in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A role a species plays in the ecosystem
What is a niche?
_______ biomes include deserts, tundra and tropical rainforests
Terrestrial
Small freshwater animal that paralyzes its prey
What is a hydra?
The process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy to fuel their growth and metabolism.
What is photosynthesis?
Relative ability of an organism to survive and produce fertile offspring?
What is fitness?
A habitat
What is the physical area where a species lives?
The amount of water in the air
What is humidity
TRUE OR FALSE: you should carry a microscope with 2 hands
True
Eats huge numbers of bacteria, which keeps the water clean
What does a Vorticella do?
When members of the same species compete over resources.
What is intraspecific competition?
A tropical rainforest or a desert
What is a biome?
Water that has less than 1% of salt.
What is freshwater?
TRUE Or FALSE: you should start with the highest objective lense
False
What does Daphnia do?
Keeps algae and bacteria populations in check
evolutionary process in which organisms best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on their traits to future generations.
What is natural selection?
The typical weather in an area over a long period of time
What is the climate?
Aquatic biomes in the ocean
What is a marine biome?
A plant
What is an example of a producer?
A biome in which multiple organisms live and have adapted to the environment, which has less than 1% of salt
What is a freshwater biome?