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Bio 6th ch61
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flora | |
| Fauna | |
| Key | |
| Pooter | The operator inhales through the shorter tube and sucks the insects into the jar using the longer tube. |
| Pitfall trap | |
| Sweep net | A sweep net is a specialized piece of ecological equipment used to sample and collect insects and other small invertebrates from areas of vegetation, such as long grass or crops |
| Beating tray | A beating tray is a cloth stretched out on a metal frame. It is held under a tree, bush or hedge and the branches are shaken or beaten with a stick. Organisms fall onto the cloth. |
| Quadrant | |
| Qualitative | |
| Quantitative | Quantitative survey. Records the number of individuals of each species present in a habitat. |
| all the plant life living in a particular ecosystem | |
| the collective animal life found within a specific region, habitat, or geological timeframe. | |
| is a numbered or lettered series of paired descriptive statements used to identify unknown plants (flora) and animals (fauna) in an ecosystem study | |
| a pitfall trap is an ecological sampling technique used to collect and study small, ground-dwelling crawling invertebrates. | |
| a quadrat is a square frame of a known area used in ecology to isolate a standard unit of area for quantitative analysis of an ecosystem | |
| a qualitative test or observation tells you whether a substance is present or absent, but it does not tell you how much of it there is. | |
| Ecology | the study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment. |
| Biosphere | All the places on earth that support living things. |
| Ecosystem | The interactions between a group of organisms and the environment in a specific area. |
| Habitat | The area an organism lives in within an ecosystem. |
| Limiting factor | A factor that determines the size or distribution of a population in an ecosystem. |
| Biotic | Biotic factors: Living features of an ecosystem that affect organisms. Include food, disease, competition and predation. |
| Abiotic | Abiotic factors: Non-living features of an ecosystem that affect organisms. Include water, oxygen, space, temperature, light and soil |
| Edaphic | relating to or caused by the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soil that influence the growth and distribution of living organisms |
| Population | The number of individuals of the same species in an ecosystem. |
| Community | a group of different species populations that live and interact in the same geographic area at the same time |
| Carrying capacity | The maximum size of a population that can be sustained in an ecosystem. |
| Predator | An organism that hunts, kills and eats another organism. |
| Prey | An organism that is eaten by a predator. |
| Predation | The hunting, killing and consuming of prey by a predator. |
| Competition | The struggle between organisms for essential resources that are in limited supply. |
| Symbiosis | A relationship between two organisms of different species in which at least one benefits. |
| Mutualism | A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit. |
| Commensalism | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected. |
| Parasitism | A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed. |
Created by:
Louie Masterson