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What is biotic and abiotic?
Signs of each symbiotic relationship
What is Mutualism (+/+), Parasitism (+/-), Commensalism (+/0)
Represented by the arrows in a food chain/food web
What is flow of energy?
Most of Earth's oxygen in the atmosphere is the result of this.
What is Photosynthesis?
The environment where an organism lives
What is habitat?
Nonliving and living things interacting together in the environment
What is ecosystem?
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the detriment of the spruce tree
What is Parasitism?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of a food chain
What is energy pyramid?
Products of photosynthesis
What is oxygen and glucose?
A community grows and changes over a period of time, eventually becoming a forest
What is ecological/plant succession?
All living things in one area
What is a community?
The stork uses it's saw-like bill to cut up the dead animals it eats. As a result, the dead animal carcass is accessible to some bees for food and egg laying.
What is Commensalism?
The levels of the energy pyramid
What is Producer (1), Primary Consumer (2), Secondary Consumer (3), Tertiary Consumer (4)?
Inputs for Photosynthesis
What is water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight?
The organism being harmed in a parasitic relationship is called this
What is the host?
A group of the same living things in one area
What is a population?
Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Next the honey guide birds eat.
What is Mutualism?
The consumer at the end of a food chain that will recycle inorganic compounds
What is a decomposer?
What is the leaves and chloroplasts?
When two organisms live in the same area and rely on the same resources for survival, they are in __________.
What is competition?
An organisms specific role in their environment
What is Niche?
As bison walk through grass, insects become active and are seen and eaten by cowbirds.
What is Commensalism?
In the Pacific Ocean: sharks eat small fish, small fish eat tiny sea plants. Explain in detail what would happen if an oil spill blocked the sun from getting to the tiny sea plants.
What is the tiny sea plants would decrease, causing the rest of the populations (small fish and sharks) to also decrease.
Tiny openings in the leaves through which carbon dioxide and oxygen enter/exit the plant
What is stomata?
When a plant leans toward sunlight it is because of this
What is phototropism?