Ecological Orginization
An area that includes abiotic and biotic factors in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A habitat
What is the physical area where a species lives?
Where freshwater streams meet with the ocean
What is an Estuary?
TRUE OR FALSE: you should carry a microscope with 2 hands
True
All the populations of a different species that live in the same area and interact with one another.
What is a community?
The evolutionary process in which organisms best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on their traits to future generations.
What is natural selection?
A tropical rainforest or a desert
What is a biome?
_______ biomes include deserts, tundra and tropical rainforests
What is a terrestrial biome?
Small freshwater animal that paralyzes its prey
What is a Hydra?
The process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy to fuel their growth and metabolism.
What is photosynthesis?
When a species uses appearance to copy or mimic other species.
What is mimicry?
A role a species plays in the ecosystem
What is a niche?
The amount of water in the air
What is humidity?
Which objective lens do scientists always start with
What is 40x?
Eats huge numbers of bacteria, which keeps the water clean
What is Vorticella?
Fitness
What is relative ability of an organism to survive and produce fertile offspring
The typical weather in an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
Has less than 1% of salt.
What is freshwater?
Elodea makes its own food using chloroplasts
What is a producer?
Keeps algae and bacteria populations in check
What is Daphnia?
When members of the same species compete over resources.
What is intraspecific competition?
How far away a biome is from the equator
What is Latitude?
Aquatic biomes in the ocean
What is a marine biome?
Makes food in the light, but eats nutrients in the dark
What is Euglena?
A biome in which multiple organisms live and have adapted to the environment, which only hasa 1% of salt
What is a freshwater biome?