Ecosystems
The term that describes plants and animals that live together in a habitat.
What is a community?
A series of changes in an ecosystem over time.
What is succession?
Any type of plant or animal that is in danger of disappearing forever.
What is an endangered species?
A measure of the total mass of living organisms within an ecosystem.
What is biomass?
rocks, air, sunlight.
What are three examples of abiotic factors?
The natural home or environment for a plant, animal, or organism.
What is a Habitat?
Primary and Secondary
What are the two type of succession?
A living thing that is brought to a new habitat, often causing damage to the new environment.
What is an invasive species?
A graph used to show the energy transfer between organisms.
What is a biomass pyramid?
The percentage of species that scientists have discovered of all the species on earth.
What is 12%?
A biological community of interacting organisms in an environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
When new land is formed or bare rock is exposed, creating a place for a new habitat.
What is Primary Succession?
Living things that do not make their own food.
What is a consumer?
The type of organism at the bottom of the biomass pyramid.
organisms, fungi, bacteria.
What are three types of biotic factors?
The variety of life and organisms in a habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
When a previously occupied area that has been affected by a disturbance that killed all or most of its community is redevelops into a habitat.
What is Secondary Succession?
Living things that make their own food.
What is a producer?
The type of organism at the top of the biomass pyramid.
What is an apex predator?
Buy locally grown/manufactured food or growing your own food.
What are 2 ways to make sustainable food choices?
Biotic and Abiotic.
What are the two type of factors that make up an ecosystem?
Regrowth after a forest fire.
What is an example of Secondary Succession?
The maximum population an environment can support based on the available food, water, and resources.
What is carrying capacity?
The amount (%) of energy that is retained at each level in the biomass pyramid.
What is the 10%?
resource availability, food, water.
What are three factors that affect carrying capacity?