Definitions
explanations or assumptions we make based on our knowledge
Inference
Cold, frozen below the surface, and has wolves, elk, and bears.
Tundra
Competition
When organisms living in the same ecosystem require the same resources
Photosynthesizes and produces its own energy.
Producer
Recycling, donation drives, etc.
All the different organisms living in one area at a specific time.
Community
Desert
Hot, little to no rain, has hares, tortoises, lizards, and snakes
Mutualism
This organism is called a BLANK which means they cannot make their own energy and must get it from consuming another organism.
Heterotroph
These organisms consume dead matter but do not cycle the nutrients back into the food web
Detritivores
Interaction between all biotic and abiotic factors
Ecosystem
Shallow water, warm, humid, has alligators, ducks, catfish
Wetland
Predation
When one organism consumes another
Another name for a tertiary consumer is this term for the top of the food web/chain
Apex Predator
Give an example of an invasive species in the US
SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM
Population
A group of the same organisms living in one area
Coral reef
underwater, salt water, shallow, warm water, and has coral, octopuses, crabs, lobsters, eels, rays, angelfish
One organism benefits while the other is neither harmed nor benefited
Commensalism
What is one abiotic limiting factor?
Winter, Climate Change, Reproductive site availability
Living Things
Biotic Things
Bursts of rain and then drought, flat, winters and summers, and has grasses, bison, prairie dogs, butterflies
Grassland
One of these steals energy from their host.
Parasite
These consumers consume producers.
Primary consumers
What is an example of a species that is extinct.
SO MANY