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What is a group of organisms of different species living together in a particular place called?

COMMUNITY

Another name for a producer.

Autotroph

What does an ecosystem consist of?

All living things in a certain area as well as their physical environment

Give an example of a decomposer and what it does.

Fungi or bacteria: It’s a consumer that gets its food from breaking down dead organisms.

List three abiotic factors

1. Soil 2. Water 3. Weather

Give an example of a relationship between a producer and a consumer.

Deer Eating Grass

Plants : Producers as Horses : __________

Plants : Producers as Horses : Consumers

What trophic levels are animals in that feed on plants?

Second, Third, or Fourth

How much energy is passed on to the next trophic level?

10%

Does the energy decrease or increase when you are moving from one trophic level to the next higher trophic level?

Decrease

Algae and plants are in what trophic level? What are they called?

First trophic level producers

What happens to an organisms nutrients when it dies?

The nutrients are released by decomposers

Daily Double What is the difference between food chain and food web?

Food chains: show how much matter and energy move through an ecosystem. Food Webs: are models that express all possible feeding relationships at each tropic level in a community.

What is the process called when plants make their own food?

Photosynthesis

Looking at the food chain what trophic level is the penguin in? Algae → Krill → penguin

Third Trophic level

What is the ultimate fate of all energy?

To be lost as heat

What is the ultimate source of all energy?

SUN

What is transpiration?

It’s when the trees sweat- liquid changing from a liquid to a gas.

Matter is constantly being _________?

Recycled

Is water, nitrogen, and carbon required by all living things to survive?

Yes

What does it mean when a population has reached their carrying capacity?

It’s the number of organisms of one species that an environment can support

Give an example of a mutualistic relationship Give an example of a mutualistic relationship

Ant and Tree the ant provides protection and the tree provide food and shelter.

Give an example of qualitative data

Any description with words. Mrs. Harding has brown hair.

What is an example of a commensalistic relationship?

Falcon and Geese

What’s an example of parasitism?

Ticks and Dogs

Ecology is the study of what?

Relationships between living things and their environment.

What are three types of symbiotic relationships?

1. Mutualism 2. Parasitism 3. Commensalism

What organism receives energy from every other type of organism?

Decomposers

Starting at the base of the pyramid do the numbers decrease or increase as it goes up to the next higher trophic level?

Decrease

True or False Energy is recyclable

FALSE

What does biomass mean?

It’s the total dry weight of the organisms in an ecosystem.

Commensalism : one organism Mutualism : _____ _________

Commensalism : one organism Mutualism : both organisms

What is a niche?

The role and position a species has in its environment-how it meets its needs for food, shelter, how it survives, and how it reproduces. Does it matter what their genetic make up is? NO

What happens when two niches over lap?

The organisms may have to compete directly.

A single factor that limits the growth, abundance, or distribution of a population is?

Limiting factor