Unit One Flashcards
Basic needs of a living thing(4)
Habitat
Food
Water
Air
Definition: Structural Adaptions
Physical adaptions a organism is born with, buck, horns, beak, wings, etc.
Definition: Behavioral Adaptions
Something an animal does to survive, migrate, etc.
Definition: Mutualism
Plus plus
Definition: Parasitism
Plus minus
Definition: Commensalism
Plus equal
Definition: ecological footprint Components(8)
Oxygen Food Water Fibre Energy Recreation Infrastructure Waste Disposal
Definition: Manipulated Variable
The thing YOU change
Definition: Controlled Variable
What does not change
Definition: Responding Variable
What happens as a result from the manipulated Variable
Definition: Niche
The role a plant has in an ecosystem
Definition: Producers
They make the nutrients they need to survive
Definition: Consumer
They eat the food made from producers
Definition: Herbivores
Only eats plants
Definition: Omnivores
Eats plants and meat
Definition: Carnivores
Only eats meat
Definition: Predators
They hunt other species
Definition: Prey
Hunted by Predators
Definition: Decomposers
They break down dead animal and plant matter
The difference between food webs and food chains is…
A food web is a network of relationships among organisms, a food chain is energy being passed down
Definition: Pyramid of numbers
The number of individual organisms at each level of an organism, the number decreases at the top of the pyramid
Definition: Carbon Cycle
The cycle of which carbon is used and reused through an ecosystem.
Definitions: Fossil Fuels
Gas formed from the soft parts of plants and animals.
Definition: Water Cycle
The continuous movement of water through the biosphere.