Symbiotic Relationship
What type of symbiotic relationship takes between a shark and a remora, where the remora follows the shark and eats its scraps but does not affect the shark?
Commensalism
Is a stapler alive, dead, or non-living?
Non-living, because it has never met the criteria to be a living thing and never will.
What type of interaction takes place between two organisms that live in close association with one another?
What type of organism makes their own energy from abiotic factors?
Producers.
What occurs when a trait provides an organism with a greater chance to reproduce, causing the trait to spread through a population?
Evolution
What type of symbiotic relationship takes place between a tick and a human, where the tick feeds on the human and can potentially spread diseases and harm the human in other ways?
Parasitism
Is a fallen branch alive, dead, or non-living?
Dead, because it once met the criteria to be alive, but no longer does.
What type of interaction takes place when a resource that is so scarce in an environment it restricts the size of a population?
Limiting Factor
What type of organism get energy from breaking down dead organisms and turning them into simpler compounds?
Decomposers
What is the largest population an environment can support?
Carrying capacity
What type of symbiotic relationship takes place between a small bird and a hippopotamus, where the small bird eats parasites and insects off of the hippo?
Mutualism
Is a tree alive, dead, or non-living?
Alive, because it meets all criteria to be considered a living thing.
What type of interaction takes place when two or more organisms attempt to use the same resource?
Competition
What type of organisms gets energy from eating other organisms?
Consumers
What are all non-living factors present in an environment and what are all living factors present in an environment called?
Abiotic
Biotic
Why is the interaction between a mother cow and her calf not considered a symbiotic relationship?
They are the same species.
Is an uncooked ribeye steak alive, dead, or non-living? Does cooking the steak change your answer?
Dead, because it once met all criteria to be a living thing, but no longer does.
Yes, it has not undergone a great change and is now non-living.
What type of interaction takes place when a consumer kills and eats another organism? What is the organism that kills and eats called? What is the organism that is killed and eaten called?
Predation
Predator
Prey
How are scavengers and decomposers different?
What is a role that is filled in an environment?
Niche
Why is a lion eating a gazelle not considered a symbiotic relationship?
Predation is not symbiosis.
Is a t-rex fossil alive, dead, or non-living?
Non-living because it is the bones of a living thing that have undergone a great change to become something else.
What are the three types of symbiosis?
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Name the four types of consumers and what they eat.
Carnivore - only other animals
Herbivore - only plants
Omnivore - both plants and animals
Scavenger - dead organisms