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Balancing Act
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Go with the flow...of Energy
100
The Three Challenges of Life are__________.
What is a. Getting energy b. reproducing c. Maintaining structure
100
Changes that take place inside of an organism
What is Internal Response?
100
The study of organisms and their relationships to their environment
What is Ecology?
100
The number of individuals of a population in a specific area = # of individuals divided by __area___ or n / __area______
What is population density?
100
As you move from producer to consumer to decomposer in a food chain or food web, this is happening to the energy flow.
What is decreasing?
200
The 4 basic needs of all organisms are
What is a. food i. Example: grass for cows, plants create food through photosynthesis, hamburger for people b. water i. Example: drinking it and in the food we eat c. air (oxygen) i. Example: dissolved oxygen in water for fish d. right environment i.Example: snowy, cold for polar bears, swamps for alligators, houses for humans, caves for bears, trees for birds 1. Temperature 2. Shelter 3. Space
200
A change in the environment that causes an organism to change its activity
What is Stimulus?
200
A group of interacting organisms living together in a particular physical environment, interacting with abiotic factors as well.
What is ecosystem?
200
a group of individuals of the same species that exist together in the same place at the same time.
What is population?
200
This chart shows all the possible ways energy can transfer in a particular ecosystem.
What is a food web.
300
The tendency of an organism to regulate its internal conditions to maintain good health
What is Homeostasis?
300
The way an organism reacts to a change in the environment
What is response?
300
Non-living factors are _________ and living factors are ________.
What is abiotic and biotic?
300
The maximum size of a population that a particular environment can support
What is carrying capacity?
300
Organisms fight for food, shelter, space and mates among other things. These organisms are said to have what kind of relationship?
What is a competitive relationship?
400
An organism that uses heat that its body produces to maintain its body temperature
What is Endotherm?
400
the process of flow of carbon through the environment is _______________. And ___________is the movement of nitrogen through the environment.
What is Carbon Cycle and Nitrogen Cycle?
400
The particular part of an ecosystem where an organism lives
What is _Habitat_____?
400
When an animal has a population greater than the carrying capacity of particular environment, that animal is said to be ___________.
What is overpopulation?
400
Mistletoe lives on trees and gets its nutrients from them. Mistletoe hurts a tree by robbing it of nutrients needed for growth. What kind of relationship do the tree and the mistletoe have?
What is a parasitic relationship?
500
An organism that does not produce enough heat internally and uses behavioral adaptations to get heat from its environment
What is Ectotherm?
500
is an organism that feeds and breaks down the bodies of dead organinsms.
What is ____decomposer______ ?
500
All the interacting populations in an area
What is community?
500
Unlimited growth of a population is known as _______. It has a J-shape on it's graph.
What is exponential growth?
500
An oak tree, a deer and a mountain lion for a food chain. If all the deer move away or die off, what is going to happen to the mountain lion population.
It will decrease because of lack of food.