Habitats And Interactions, Mixtures Flashcards
What is a mutualistic relationship?
Both organisms benifit from the friendship.
What is a paracidic relationship?
An organism is harmed while the other benifits in the friendship.
What is a commenalism relationship?
One benifits while the other isn’t harmed.
Give an example of a mutualistic relationship.
- A relationship of an oxpecker and a zebra.
- Bees and the flower
What is an example of a paracidic relationship?
- Ticks on a deer
- Caterpilar on a leaf
What is an example of a commenalism relationship?
- Possum in tree
- Monarc butterfly on milkweed plants
What are the three adaptations?
- Behavioral: They are learned or instinctiv and are social or protective behaviors.
- Structural: Physical features of the organism chainging over time.
- Physiological: When features are changing internaly.
What are some positive features of bush fires?
- Return nutrience to soil so plants can regrow.
- Cyonide in smoke helps seeds to germinate.
- Clears understory reducing competition for seedlings.
- Encourages growth that provides food for animals.
- Creates hollows in trees for animals to live in.
What are some negative features of the bushfires?
- Burn and damage vegitation communities.
- Kill or injure plants and animals.
- Causes erosion following sedimentation of creeks and wetlands.
- Open up areas to weeds, feral animal invasion and human vandilism.
What is germination?
When seeds open up
What is cyonide?
Stuff in smoke that help seeds to germinate.
What are pure substances? Give examples.
Made up of only one type of partical. For example, silver, gold and hydrogen.
What are mixtures? Give examples.
Made up of two or more substances mixed together. For example salt water, pizza and cordial.
What is a homoginous mixture?
It only has one fase in the mixture. For example, coffe and blood.
What is a heterogenous mixture? Give examples.
The mixture has two of more fases. For example, pizza and m&ms
What is a solvent?
Takes in a substance to be dissolved.
What is a solute and what are the two types of solute substances?
Something that is put into the solvent. Souluble is something that can be dissolved and insoluble is something that cant.
What is a sulution?
Both the solute and solvent together.
What does it mean when something is concentrated? Give example.
There is more solvent than the solute. For example, strong cordial.
What happenes when something is dilute? Give example
When the solute is more than the solvent. For example, weak cordial.
What does saturated mean?
The solution has too much solvent in it that the solvent will no longer dissolve. Instead it settels at the bottom.
What is suspention?
A type of mixture where insoluble parts float untill gravity pulls them down.
What is Certifuge? Give example
Seperating things by spinning. For example, people seperate blood by certifuging.
