Vocabulary
What is reproduction?
The process of creating offspring
Which animal has been the focus of our underwater food web?
Moon jellies.
When an organism in a consumer population eats an organism in a resource population, it receives ___________.
Energy storage molecules
Is algae a resource population or a consumer population?
Resource population.
Name one organism in this room.
[us]
Define "consumer population".
A population that eats organisms from another population.
When a population size increases over time, the total number of births __________ the total number of deaths.
Is greater than
Name one example of predation.
Ex. Orcas eating sea turtles.
Choose the best example of a resource population from the following list.
Carrot
Rabbit
Fox
Human
Carrot
Glucose is one kind of __________.
Energy resource molecule.
A population that is eaten by organisms from another population.
When a population size stays the same over time, the total number of births _________ the total number of deaths.
Equals
Sardines and moon jellies are two populations that eat zooplankton. What do you call the interaction of sardines and moon jellies?
Competition
Choose the best example of a consumer population from the following list.
Algae
Moon Jellies
Orca Whales
Zooplankton
Orca Whales
One sign of a healthy ecosystem is its _________.
Biodiversity
What do you call a scientist who studies the interactions of organisms with each other and their environment?
An ecologist.
When a population size decreases over time, the total number of births _________ the total number of deaths.
Is less than
Bullhorn acacia trees and acacia ants have a special relationship: the trees provide a home for the ants and the ants protect the trees from predators. What is this relationship an example of?
Mutualism
Leatherback sea turtles eat jellies and are hunted by orca whales. This makes them…
...both a consumer population and a resource population.
A family group of orca whales is called…
...a pod.
Draw a food web on the board.
[Can include any examples from our unit or examples that a scholar can readily identify from the world around them.]
You have two pet rabbits, a mom and a dad. The mom gives birth to three babies. Then, the dad and two of the babies get sick and die. What has happened to the population?
It has stayed the same.
In the article about Northern and Southern Benguela, what was the main cause of the jelly population explosion?
Overfishing of sardines.
Orcas eat sea turtles, which eat moon jellies, which eat zooplankton, which eat algae. Can a decline in the orca population affect the moon jelly population? (explain)
Yes. Having fewer orcas could allow the sea turtle population to grow, allowing the sea turtles to eat more jellies.
You are trying to determine the number of scholars in Middle School, but you do not have time to count every scholar in the school. What is the best way to estimate the number of scholars?
Count all of the scholars in a couple of classes, then take an average of that number and multiply by the number of classes going on.