Unit A Owen, Kahlan, Liam

Question 1

1. What is an example of an abiotic and biotic specimen?

Answer 1

Biotic- tree

Abiotic- Rock

Question 2

1. What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?

Answer 2

Answer- Biotic means living and abiotic means nonliving

Question 3

1.what does ecosystem mean?

Answer 3

Ecosystem means a place on earth where living things interact with other living things and nonliving things.

Question 4

2. How many species of ants are there?

Answer 4

12000

Question 5

2. What is a type of symbiotic relationship? Explain what your example of symbiotic relationships is.

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

2.what are nutrients and what do you need them for?

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

3. What do all biotic factors need?

Answer 7

water

Question 8

3. What is an example of a human affecting an ecosystem? How is the ecosystem affected.

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

3.what is commensalism?

Answer 9

The relationship where one species benefits and the other species neither benifits nor harmed.

Question 10

4. What is a population?

Answer 10

An amount of a species represents a population; the # of a certain species.

Question 11

4. What is mutualism? Provide an example.

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

4.what does symbiosis?

Answer 12

The relationship between species where at least one species benefits

Question 13

5. Define each mutualism, commensalism, parasitism.

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

5. What is parasitism? Provide an example.

Answer 14

Answer- parasitism is when one organism benefits off of one organism and the one organism is harmed. For example, a mosquito biting a human.

Question 15

5.what is adaption mean?

Answer 15

Adaptation means a change in an organism that makes it suited to a particular environment.

Question 16

6. Name four abiotic factors on our planet.

Answer 16

Rock, glass, sand, broom.

Question 17

6. Why is a rock considered abiotic?

Answer 17

Answer- a rock is not considered living because it is not made up of cells.

Question 18

6.what kind of animals live in a ecosystem?

Answer 18

Lots of animals live in the ecosystem there are beavers, moose,giraffes etc… there are lots of animals that live in a ecosystem.

Question 19

7. Name four biotic factors.

Answer 19

Liam, Tree, grass, animals

Question 20

7. What is biotic? Provide an example.

Answer 20

Biotic means living, an example of biotic would be a fish because it’s made up of cells.

Question 21

7.what are basic needs?

Answer 21

The basic needs are water,energy,food,oxygen and suitable living conditions of all living things.

Question 22

8. What is the difference between a carnivore and herbivore.

Answer 22

A carnivore is a strict meat eater a herbivore eats plants NOT meat.

Question 23

8. What type of symbolistic relationship would humans and trees be an example of. Why?

Answer 23

Answer- it would be an example of mutual because both living things benefit.

Question 24

8.what is a community in an ecosystem?

Answer 24

Is all populations of different species living and interacting in the same place.

Question 25

9. What is an omnivore

Answer 25

An omnivore eats meat and plants (so pretty much everything).

Question 26

9. What symbolistic relationship do scavengers have?

Answer 26

Answer- they have commensalism because they benefit and they think they are scavenging are not being harmed or benefiting.

Question 27

9.what is a population in a ecosystem?

Answer 27

?all individuals of one species living in a certain place at the same time.

Question 28

10. Explain the water cycle. (Hint: Use the song Ms. Tarant told us.)

Answer 28

Evaporation, condensation, (Movement. Optional) Precipitation. That is how everything moves in the water cycle

Question 29

10. Whats a herbivore?

Answer 29

Answer- a living thing that only eats vegetation.

Question 30

10.what are 5 objects that are biotic?

Answer 30

The 5 objects that are biotic are shrimp,giraffes,people,beaver,raccoon those are all biotic things that live.