Invasive Species
This is a species that is not native to an area and causes harm.
What is an Invasive Species
These are the living parts of an ecosystem.
What are Biotic Factors?
When two organisms fight for the same limited resource, this interaction is called what?
What is Competition?
This organism makes its own food using sunlight and is at the base of most food chains.
What is a producer?
The basic unit of life
What is a cell?
A species that naturally lives in a specific ecosystem.
What is a Native Species?
These are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem like water, sunlight, and temperature.
What are abiotic factors?
When organisms work together toward a shared goal, such as hunting or protection, this is called what?
What is Cooperation?
An organism that eats producers is called what?
This type of energy is energy of motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
An Invasive Species in Missouri that utilizes double the resources of other plants
A fungus infecting a tree is an example of which type of factor?
What is a biotic factor?
This type of relationship occurs when two different species both benefit from the interaction.
What is mutualism?
If a snake eats a mouse and a hawk eats the snake, what is the hawk’s role in the food chain?
What is a secondary consumer?
When light bends as it passes from air into water, this is called what?
What is refraction?
What is migration?
Drought affecting plant growth is an example of which type of factor?
What is an abiotic factor?
Bees collecting nectar from flowers while helping pollinate them is an example of what type of relationship?
What is mutualism
The primary consumer in this food web:
Hawk--> Snake --> Mouse --> Grass
What is a mouse?
This process allows plants to use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This word describes a species brought to a new area by humans on purpose or by accident.
What is an Introduced Species?
An invasive plant increases competition for water and sunlight. These limited resources are examples of what type of factors?
What are abiotic factors?
If an invasive species and a native species both need the same food source, what type of interaction is occurring — and what is a likely outcome?
What is competition, and the native population may decrease?
If an invasive predator enters a food web with no natural enemies, how will this most likely affect the ecosystem?
What is it will disrupt the food web by reducing prey populations and causing imbalance?
If an object’s mass increases but the temperature stays the same, what happens to its total thermal energy?
What is it increases?