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Parts of an ecosystem
Symbiosis
Food Webs/Chains
Predators and Prey
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Give an example of an ecosystem.
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A relationship between two kinds of organism that last over time is called symbiosis. What is one type of symbiosis? We are not looking for a specific example of one- just the type.
Parasitism, commensalism, or mutualism.
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What type of organism makes its own food?
Producer
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Living things that hunt and kill other living things for food are called what?
Predators
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Is a rock a biotic or abiotic factor?
abiotic
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Give one example of a parasitic relationship.
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What type of consumer eats a producer?
Primary Consumer
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What do we call an animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals that it did not hunt or kill.
Scavenger
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Is a turtle a biotic factor or an abiotic factor?
biotic
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A sea lamprey is a fish that uses its mouth to attach itself to the sides of other fish and carves a hole in the host with its sharp teeth. It then sucks out some of the host's blood. This is an example of what?
Parasitism.
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What is the role of a decomposer?
A decomposer breaks down the remains of dead organisms into simpler substances. It does not just eat them, but it breaks them down. This is different than a scavenger that eats the dead animals.
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What is the term for a predator that eats other animals?
Carnivore
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If an area has sunfish, painted turtles, bull frogs, water, and rocks- how many populations does that area have?
Three- the sunfish population, the painted turtle population, and the bull frog population.
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Various species of "cleaner fish" eat parasites or dead skin off larger fish, while the larger fish provide a nourishment source and protect the cleaner fish from enemies. This is an example of what?
Mutualism.
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What type of consumer eats a secondary consumer?
Tertiary consumer.
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What do we call a primary consumer that eats only producers? They often have flat-edged teeth in the front of the mouth for cutting plant material.
Herbivore
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What is the term that we use to identify a group of populations? For example, all of the populations of perch, frogs, turtles, algae, trees, and other organisms that live in or near a pond would make up the pond's ___________?
Community
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Clownfish use sea anemones for protection. The stinging cells on the tentacles of sea anemones do not harm clown fish, so they protect these fish from predators. What type of relationship is this?
Commensalism
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(We will draw this on the board) In a food web, where an oak tree is the producer, a mouse eats an acorn from the oak tree, a snake eats the mouse, a hawk eats the snake, and the hawk also eats the mouse- what level consumer is the hawk when it eats the mouse? How about when it eats the snake? (you must have both answers correct to get points for this question.
When it eats the mouse it will be a secondary consumer, when it eats the snake it will be a tertiary consumer.
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What do omnivores eat?
Omnivores eat both plants and animals.