The Water Cycle
The way that water moves all around the Earth
The Water Cycle
Describe close relationships between two biologically different species
Symbiosis
Shows how energy passes from one organism to the next
Food Chain
Organisms that make their own food (hint:plants)
Producers
The study of the interactions among organisms and their environments.
Ecology
Water is heated by the sun and changed to gas.
Evaporation
What are the three (3) types of symbiotic relationships: 1. _____, 2. ______, and 3. _______
1. mutualism, 2. commensalism, and 3. parasitism
Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships
Food Web
An animal that only eats plants
Herbivore
Group of individuals that all belong to the same species.
Population
Water vapor is cooled by the cooler air temperature in the sky and it changes back to a liquid to form a cloud.
Condensation
A clown fish is protected from predators by the sea anemone and the anemone is cleaned by the clown fish. This example represents this kind of relationship:
Mutulalism
All food chains and webs must start with _____
Producer
An animal that only eats other animals
Carnivore
All the populations of different species in a given area.
Community
When the cloud is too full and the droplets make their way back down to the group. Examples: rain, sleet, snow, & hail
Precipitation
A cattle egret (bird) follows cattle and eats the insects that are stirred up by the movement of the cattle through the grass. This example represents this kind of relationship:
Commensalism
The ultimate source of energy in a food chain or web is _____ _____
The Sun
Organisms that eats both plants and animals
Omnivores
Community of biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) factors that interact
Ecosystem
When water is evaporated through the leaves of plants or trees
Transpiration is when water is evaporated through the leaves of plants or trees
Heartworms living in the heart or lungs of dogs and cats represents this kind of relationship:
Parasitism
In a food web or chain the arrows represents ____ ______ ___ ________
The Flow of Energy
Decomposers are organisms that breaks down unused dead material and turn them into nutrients in the soil, which plants use to grow. Name 3 types of decomposers.
mushroom
maggot
fungi
The ecological levels of organization are 1.___, 2. ____, 3. ____, 4. ____, 5. _____, and 6. ______
1. individual , 2. population, 3. community, 4 ecosystem, 5. biome, and 6. biosphere.