Unit A Owen, Kahlan, Liam Flashcards
- What is an example of an abiotic and biotic specimen?
Biotic- tree
Abiotic- Rock
- What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
Answer- Biotic means living and abiotic means nonliving
1.what does ecosystem mean?
Ecosystem means a place on earth where living things interact with other living things and nonliving things.
- How many species of ants are there?
12000
- What is a type of symbiotic relationship? Explain what your example of symbiotic relationships is.
Answer- A type of symbiotic relationship would be commensalism. Commensalism is when one organism benefits off of one organism and the other is not affected or benefited.
2.what are nutrients and what do you need them for?
Nutrients are a component of food that supplies energy or building material to a living thing. you need nutrients because nutrients help your body a lot.
- What do all biotic factors need?
water
- What is an example of a human affecting an ecosystem? How is the ecosystem affected.
Answer- an example of humans affecting an ecosystem would be when plastic is left around and gets around organisms necks.
It affects the animals because the animals can die from the plastic strangling them.
3.what is commensalism?
The relationship where one species benefits and the other species neither benifits nor harmed.
- What is a population?
An amount of a species represents a population; the # of a certain species.
- What is mutualism? Provide an example.
Answer- A mutual relationship is when two organisms benefit off of each other. For example, a goby fish and a snapping shrimp, the shrimp builds a burrow and allows the goby fish to share the burrow. The shrimp is almost blind so it always feels the goby fish and the goby fish warns the shrimp of danger.
4.what does symbiosis?
The relationship between species where at least one species benefits
- Define each mutualism, commensalism, parasitism.
Mutualism- Is when two organisms benifit off each other.
Commensalism- When one organism benefits and one is not affected.
Parasitism- When one is benefited and one is negatively affected.
- What is parasitism? Provide an example.
Answer- parasitism is when one organism benefits off of one organism and the one organism is harmed. For example, a mosquito biting a human.
5.what is adaption mean?
Adaptation means a change in an organism that makes it suited to a particular environment.
- Name four abiotic factors on our planet.
Rock, glass, sand, broom.
- Why is a rock considered abiotic?
Answer- a rock is not considered living because it is not made up of cells.
6.what kind of animals live in a ecosystem?
Lots of animals live in the ecosystem there are beavers, moose,giraffes etc… there are lots of animals that live in a ecosystem.
- Name four biotic factors.
Liam, Tree, grass, animals
- What is biotic? Provide an example.
Biotic means living, an example of biotic would be a fish because it’s made up of cells.
7.what are basic needs?
The basic needs are water,energy,food,oxygen and suitable living conditions of all living things.
- What is the difference between a carnivore and herbivore.
A carnivore is a strict meat eater a herbivore eats plants NOT meat.
- What type of symbolistic relationship would humans and trees be an example of. Why?
Answer- it would be an example of mutual because both living things benefit.
8.what is a community in an ecosystem?
Is all populations of different species living and interacting in the same place.
- What is an omnivore
An omnivore eats meat and plants (so pretty much everything).
- What symbolistic relationship do scavengers have?
Answer- they have commensalism because they benefit and they think they are scavenging are not being harmed or benefiting.
9.what is a population in a ecosystem?
?all individuals of one species living in a certain place at the same time.
- Explain the water cycle. (Hint: Use the song Ms. Tarant told us.)
Evaporation, condensation, (Movement. Optional) Precipitation. That is how everything moves in the water cycle
- Whats a herbivore?
Answer- a living thing that only eats vegetation.
10.what are 5 objects that are biotic?
The 5 objects that are biotic are shrimp,giraffes,people,beaver,raccoon those are all biotic things that live.
