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Ch. 6-Lesson 1-4
Lesson 1-4: Ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the two factors that describe organisms and habitats? | Biotic (organisms) Abiotic (Air, water, soil, temperature, & sunlight) |
| What is a habitat to an organism? | A place that provides all the things an organism needs. |
| What is a population? | The group of organisms of one species that live in that area in the same time. |
| Name (9) types of ecosystems that exist in the world? | Coral Reef, Desert, Tropical Rain Forest, Tundra, Taiga, Mixed Forest, Prairie, & Coastal Wetland |
| What is a niche in a habitat? | A role that an animal or plant has in a particular area of its ecosystem |
| What are the factors (7) that limit the capacity of an organism? | Food, Water, Space, Shelter, Diseases, Predators, & Life cycle duration |
| What is called when both plants and animals live and need each other to survive called? | Interaction |
| What are plants classified as in an ecosystem? | Producers |
| What are living animals classified as in an ecosystem? | Consumers |
| What process is it called when either plants or animals return to the beginning? | End process |
| What are the organisms that breakdown plants or animals to begin the first stage of survival called? | Decomposers |
| What is defined as a series of steps that involve energy transfer from one organism to another? | Food Chain |
| What are the 3 things that plants compete for to survive? | Sunlight, soil, and water |
| What are specific living areas to both plants and animals known as? | Environments |
| What 4 environmental factors effect an area for plants or animals? | Temperatures, locations, air qualities, or even evaluations |
| What speeds are environments made or created in the Earth? | Changes in the environment are slow or fast |
| What 2 organisms exist in an environment? | Plants or Animals |
| What 4 changes are said to have a major effects to an environment? | Sunlight, water, temperatures, or the competitions for survival |
| What 2 ideas can make changes in an ecosystem’s structure? | Temperatures & Plants or animal evolving to survive |
| What is a long-term relationship where one organism helps another? | Symbiosis |
| What are bad for organisms that weaken or kill their host because they depend on them to feed? | Parasites |
| What is the definition of pollution? | Any unwanted substances added to the land, water, or air that causes problems to an environment |
| Pollutions have been ranged as what in the world today? | Plastics, waste water products, factory trash, and many other forms created by human origins |
| What are the 3 areas that pollutions have been known to effect environments? | Air, Land, & Sea |
| In two ways, how can new plants or animals from different ecosystems effect new ecosystems they don’t belong to? | A) They can over populate the area and destroy the ecosystem B) They can die because they cannot survive the new changes to a different environment. |
| What are the 4 issues that plants or animals have that cause them to die in a new environment? | Different temperatures, Food sources, Predators, and water contents |
| What is the definition of a poacher? | It is someone who breaks the law by illegally hunting animals or fishing areas that they are not allowed to |
| What are the 2 main problems that cause animals to be killed for “Black Market” profits? | Poachers and Bad Governments |
| What is been done to stop illegal poaching in the world? | New rules and laws that are setup by good governments. |
| What is the definition to conservation? | An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes. |
| What is biotic in an environment? | Organisms that are alive in an environment |
| What is abiotic in an environment? | Things that are not alive in an environment |
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