within a population organisms are ALWAYS being _______ and __________
born and dying ( any order)
When something becomes different over time
What is CHANGE
a model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem
what is a food web
Name an example of a consumer population
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The amount of things being added must be the same as the number of things being taken away. Example if 3 things die, 3 things must be born
A scientist who studies the interactions of organisms with each other and their enviornment
ecologist
all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area
what is ECOSYSTEM
name an example of a resource population
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There has been a sudden decrease in the amount of zooplankton in the food web. What impact would this have on both the moon jelly and walleye pollock?
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less zooplankton pop. = less ESM available for Moon jelly & walleye pollock = less reproduction = less births than deaths = decrease in population.
How does a consumer population gain energy?
from consuming resource populations
the process of creating offspring
when something stays mostly the same over time
what is stability
Give an example of something that is both a resource and consumer population
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Analyze the food web and answer the following question: What change can you make to the food web that will cause the stingwing population to increase?
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Births more than deaths
Predators go away
Their resource population increases
living things, such as plants, animals and bacteria
what are organisms
a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like
what is sample
what a resource population in this food web other than grass
what is
grasshopper or frog
Matter (energy) moves in this ecosystem when the producer the wheatgrass is eaten by the 1____________. Matter moves from the primary consumer to the secondary consumer when the 2____________ is eaten by the 3______________________.
1. Katydid
2. Katydid
3. Deer Mouse
A population of bluefish lives in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the last 50 years, the size of the bluefish population has decreased. What best explains the decrease in the size of the bluefish population?
A lot of bluefish died and no new bluefish were born.
More bluefish were born than died.
Fewer bluefish were born than died.
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what is energy
a molecule that organisms can use to release the energy needed to survive
what is energy storage molecules
Why do all arrows in a food chain point towards the decomposer?
because a food chain arrow shows the process of transferring energy storage molecules
The tuna population increased, explain what happens to all four other organisms in this food chain - use birth rate, death rate, consumer, resource, and indirect effect in your answer.
The squid population will decrease due to an increased death rate from being hunted more by the tuna (the consumer). The herring population will increase because they are being hunted less by their consumer population (the squid) due to a loss in their population. Last, the dolphin population will decrease because their resource population (the squid) will be decreasing in size due to an increase in their competition, the tuna