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Introduction to Ecology
Roles in Energy Transfer
Interactions in Communities
Florida's Ecosystems
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The study of how organisms interact with one another and with the environment
What is ecology?
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A fern uses energy to make its own food. What sort of organism is it? (producer, consumer, decomposer)
What is producer?
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A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and another is harmed.
What is parasitism??
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If a habitat has enough water to support 1,000 armadillos but only has the food for 750, how many armadillos will be able to live in that habitat?
750 armadillos :}
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Each zebra has slightly different stripes that allow it to blend into the herd and confuse predators. Blending into the herd helps the zebras do what?
What is survive and reproduce.
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What's the difference between abiotic factors and biotic factors?
abiotic is a nonliving part of an environment, biotic is a living part of an environment.
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Hedgehogs eat leaves, earthworms, and insects. Is a hedgehog a herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore?
What is an omnivore?
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Lions, leopards, and cheetahs all _________ for zebras.
compete
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Name 2 marine ecosystems.
ex. coral reefs, estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove swamps
200
Cleaner fish feed on parasites in a shark's mouth and gills. What is the relationship between he cleaner fish and the shark?
What is mutualistic?
300
These are the different levels of organization in the environment?
What is population, species, community, and ecosystem?
300
The path of energy transfer from producers to consumers.
What is a food chain?
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A close-term relationship between different species in a community.
What is symbiosis?
300
What's the difference between an introduced and native species?
Native species is a species that naturally lives in an ecosystem. An introduced species has been brought to the ecosystem by human actions.
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Suzie is studying the population changes of different organisms in a tropical rainforest. After looking at some long-term data, she notices that many years ago, a species of frog had a rapid increases in population, but then the population leveled off and has remained steady ever since. Why has the frog population would remain steady instead of increasing?
What is resources were limited and could only support a certain number of frogs?
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Jerry went to the grassy plains. He saw a prairie dog digging burrows. This is the prairie dogs populations job in the ecosystem or their....
What is niche?
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What sort of organisms form the bottom of a food web?
What is a producer?
400
Describe the predator and prey relationship.
Predator relies on prey for food. The sizes of each ones populations are linked very closely.
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Why are many introduced species successful?
They don't have predators, parasites, or diseases in the new habitat.
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A pesticide is sprayed over a 100-acre area to kill insects. How might this pesticide affect the area's carrying capacity for insect-eating birds?
What is the carrying capacity will fall because of a decrease in food supply.
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Name some important abiotic factors in terrestrial environment.
What is temperature and rainfall?
500
What would happen to a food web if one species disappeared?
all the organisms in the food web would be affected directly and indirectly.
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Name 3 resources organisms compete for.
ex. food, water, sunlight, shelter, and mates.
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This place helps remove wastes and pollution from water. Many birds, fish, reptiles, and mammals live here.
What is a wetland?
500
Mangrove trees are common to the Florida Everglades. The tree roots serve as a place for freshwater oysters to attach when the tide is high. The oysters are protected from predators when attached to the roots underwater. The oysters do not harm the trees nor do they provide any benefit to the trees. Make up a similar scenario.
What is any scenario involving commensalism?