Chapter 1

Question 1

Parts of an ecosystem

Answer 1

• Abiotic and abiotic
• Can be large or small area
• Biomes contain many different ecosystems
• Habitat where an organism lives

Question 2

What’s Abiotic Interactions?

Answer 2

Materials living things depend on

Question 3

What are some abiotic factors?

Be specific

Answer 3

• oxygen
• water
• nutrients
• light (photosynthesis)
• Soil (nutrients, water, habitat)

Question 4

What’s an habitat?

Answer 4

A place where an organism lives

Question 5

What is community?

Answer 5

All organisms that interact within ecosystem .

Question 6

What is Species?

Answer 6

All of the organisms within an ecosystem that have same structure.

Question 7

What is population?

Answer 7

All members of a certain species within an ecosystem.

Question 8

What’s commensalism?

Answer 8

One species benefits, one is not affected

Question 9

What’s mutualism?

Answer 9

Both species benefits

Question 10

What is parasitism?

Answer 10

One species benefits, one is harmed

Question 11

What is niche?

Answer 11

Role an organism has within an ecosystem

Question 12

What is competition?

Answer 12

Occurs when a resource is needed by two or more individuals… limited resource

Question 13

What is predation?

Answer 13

One organism (predator) eats all or part of another organism (prey)

Question 14

What do healthy ecosystems equal?

Answer 14

High biodiversity

Question 15

What does loss of habitat equal?

Answer 15

Loss of biodiversity

Question 16

What is Predator-prey interaction?

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Answer 16

Predator prey relationships. A predator is a organism that eats the prey. A prey is the organism who is eaten by the predator. Eg. Lynx (predator) eats the hare (prey).

Question 17

What is biotic?

Answer 17

Biotic things are living things like animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria are all examples of biotic components in an ecosystem.

Question 18

What’s biosphere?

Answer 18

Its a thin layer of air, land, and water on or near earths surface in which all of earths living things exist.

Question 19

What are the main abiotic factors?

Answer 19

Temperature and Precipitation

Question 20

What’s abiotic?

Answer 20

Abiotic components are non living parts of an environment like sunlight, moisture, temperature.

Question 21

Canada Biomes?

Answer 21

• Tundra
• Boreal forests
• Grasslands
• temperate Deciduous forest
• and Mountain forest

Question 22

What’s Latitude?

Answer 22

Distance north and south from the equator

Question 23

What’s Elevation?

Answer 23

• Atmosphere is thinner at higher elevations–> less heat retained
• windward sides of mountains are wet, leeward sides are very dry.

Question 24

What’s Ocean current?

Answer 24

• Ocean current carry earth and moisture to coastal areas.

- where warm currents meet land, temperate Biomes are found.

Question 25

What are Climatographs?

Answer 25

Climatograhs shows average temperature and precipitations.

Question 26

What’s climate?

Answer 26

Average pattern of weather conditions of a large region over a period of 30 years or more.

Question 27

What’s adaptation?

Answer 27

Characteristics that allows organisms that survive and reproduce.

Question 28

What’s structural adaptation?

Give example

Answer 28

Physical feature that’s helps an organism survive. Wolf has large paws to help it run in snow.

Question 29

What’s Physiological adaptation?

Give example

Answer 29

Physical or chemical event inside body of an organism that allows it to survive. Wolf maintains a constant body temperature .

Question 30

What’s behavioural adaptation?

Give example.

Answer 30

Behaviour that helps an organism to survive. Wolves hunt in packs to capture large prey.