Test 3 Flashcards
What is a living thing?
A living thing is an Organism.
What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem is made of the community of organisms in an area and their non-living surroundings.
What factors are the living parts of a habitat?
Abiotic
What factors are the nonliving parts of a habitat?
Botic
Identify if a factor is biotic or abiotic?
sunlight
Abtoic
Identify if a factor is biotic or abiotic?
plant
Biotic
Identify if a factor is biotic or abiotic?
animal
Biotic
Identify if a factor is biotic or abiotic?
dirt
Abtoic
Identify if a factor is biotic or abiotic?
temperature
Abtoic
Identify if a factor is biotic or abiotic?
bacteria
Biotic
What is a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring?
Species
What are all the members of a species in a particular area?
Population
What are all the different populations that live together in an area make up?
community
What is the name for something that is able to make its own food?
Producers
What is the name for something that has to eat to gain energy?
Consumer
at is an organism that kills another for food?
Predaor
What is an organism that is killed for food?
Prey
What is an interaction between two species in which at least one benefits?
Comesulism
What is mutualism?
Where both befits
What is parasitism?
Where one benefits and the other is harmed
What is commensalism?
Commensalism is where one benefits and the other is not affected
able to identify what type of symbiosis is present.
Golden jackals, once they have been expelled from a pack, will trail a tiger to feed on the remains of its kills.
Comensailm
Mistletoe absorbs nutrients from the tree
Parastism
The bee and the flower. Bees fly from flower to flower gathering nectar, which they make into food, and the bees carry pollen to other flowers.
Multalism
What is the total number of individuals that can be sustained indefinitely by an ecosystem?
Carrying capacity
What is a limiting factor?
Anything that controls the population
What is the total number of individuals that can be sustained indefinitely by an ecosystem?
Carrying capacity
Where does a producer receive its energy from?
Sun
What is an organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms to return raw materials to the environment?
Detrivore
What describes the feeding relationship between a producer and a single chain of consumers in an ecosystem?
Food chain
What is a model that shows energy flow through different organisms in an ecosystem?
Food Web
Which level of the food web or food chain contains the most energy?
The producers
What is the location an organism has in a food web?
The trophic level
In a pyramid of numbers representing an ecosystem, which level has the largest number of organisms?
The bottom, Producers
What is an omnivore?
Eats everything
What is a herbivore?
Eats plants
What is a carnivore?
Eats meat
