Ecosystem Basics
This includes all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area, plus the interactions among them.
Ecosystem
Animals like giraffes that feed mostly on leaves, twigs, and shrubs are called these.
Browsers
List 4 Biotic Factors you would find in a forest.
Biotic: things that are living or were once living
In SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob works at this fast-food restaurant.
The Krusty Krab
This is an organism’s role in an ecosystem.
Niche
What are the 3 main ecosystem types named in the reading?
Aquatic marine, aquatic freshwater, terrestrial
If something happens in a repeated pattern over and over, it is this.
cyclic
A pond has plenty of sunlight, but very little water during a drought. For many organisms, water becomes the ______.
Limiting factor
In Harry Potter, students board the Hogwarts Express at Platform _____.
9¾ (Nine and three-quarters)
When two species have overlapping niches, this increases.
Competition
Water, sunlight, and soil are examples of this.
Abiotic Factors
Disease-causing germs that can limit a population are called these.
Pathogens
List 4 abiotic Factors you would find in a forest ecosystem.
Abiotic: non-living
“Baby Yoda” from The Mandalorian is actually named this.
Grogu
Giraffes and zebras competing for food is what kind of competition?
Interspecific competition
__________ is what we call the hardest resource to obtain.
Limiting Factor
If one population does better than another at getting the same resource, it does this to the other population.
Outcompetes
If a plant-eating population drops, and then the predators that eat them also drop later, that pattern best matches this type of interaction.
Predator-prey relationship
In Marvel, Thor’s hammer is called this.
Mjolnir
Two oak trees competing for the same sunlight is this type of competition.
Intraspecific