Where They Live
What is a specific area called when someone takes the non-living, living, and amount of land into consideration?
Ecosystem
What does a food web show?
The transfer of energy between organisms
What is it called when two animals are connected to each other in some way?
Symbiotic relationship
What are the three cycles that need to happen in order to have successful life in an area?
Water Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle
What must an ecosystem or habitat need to ensure everything within it will be able to survive?
Balance between all factors of that ecosystem/habitat
What is an area called when someone looks at the living things, the amount of resources that area has, and the amount of land found within that area?
A habitat
What is at the first layer of an energy pyramid?
Producers
What is the relationship called when one animal gets all the benefits and the other is killed?
Predation
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and Runoff
Which of the following is always a human impact?
A) Deforestation
B) Urbanization
C) Flattening of Land
D) Climate Change
B) Urbanization
A) Desert
B) Freshwater
C) Savannah
D)Tundra
C) Savannah
What is a 3rd level consumer?
An organisms with no natural predator
What is the relationship called when one organism receives benefits from the relationship, and the other organism is neither harmed nor helped.
Commensalism
What element is apart of all biological molecules?
Carbon
What is carrying capacity?
The maximum amount of something that an ecosystem/habitat can support
What does biodiversity mean?
Different types of living things found in an area.
What in a food web gets the most arrows point towards it?
Decomposers
What is the relationship where both organisms receive benefits from it?
Mutualism
What causes nitrogen in soil to change back to a gas?
Bacteria
True or False
The Earth has a carrying capacity for Humans
True
What does abiotic factors mean?
All non-living things found within an ecosystem
How much energy is transferred between levels?
10% each time
What is the relationship where one organism receives benefits from the relationship, and the other is harmed but not always killed?
Parasitism
What do decomposers release into the air during the Carbon Cycle?
Carbon Dioxide
What would happen to an ecosystem if the predator population of an organism grew larger than the carrying capacity?
The predators will eat the prey faster than the prey can reproduce, leading to the death of all the prey, and eventually the death of all the predators due to starvation.