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Chapter 3 HI 4
science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| I am all the living and nonliving things in an environment including their interaction with each other. What am I? | ecosystem |
| I am all the members of one species in an area. What am I? | population |
| i am the path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem. What am I? | food chain |
| I am all of the things in an ecosystem. What am I? | community |
| I am a living thing hunted for food. What am I? | prey |
| I am the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. What am I? | food web |
| I am a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of an ecosystem. What am I? | energy pyramid |
| I am an animal that hunts other animals for food. What am I? | predator |
| I am anything that controls the growth or survival of a population. What am I? | limiting factor |
| I am the place where a plant or animal lives and grows. What am I? | habitat |
| I am the role of an organism in an ecosystem. What am I? | niche |
| I am the relationship between two kinds of organisms over time. What am I? | symbiosis |
| I am the relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits one without harming the other. What am I? | commensalism |
| I am a characteristic that helps an organism to survive in its environment. What am I? | adaptation |
| I am a type of camoflage in which the color of an animal blends in with its background, protecting the animal against predators. What am I? | protective coloration |
| I am a type of camoflage in which the color and shape of an animal blends in with its background protecting it against predators. What am I? | protective resemblance |
| I am an adaptation in which an animal is protected against predators by its resemblance to another unpleasant animal. What am I? | mimicry |
| What do we call the living factors in an environment? | biotic |
| What do we call the nonliving factors in an environment? | abiotic |
| To have a population in an ecosystem what members do we look at? | species |
| What do the members of a species make? | population |
| What do we look at in an ecosystem to form a community? | population |
| What does a population form in an ecosystem? | community |
| Name the order of an ecosystem? | species makes a population which makes a community |
| To have an ecosystem what type of thing make it up? | living and nonliving things |
| ecosystem =_______+_________ | living + nonliving |
| What is at the base of each food chain? | producers |
| The producers in a food chain use what energy to make sugar and oxygen? | Sun's energy |
| What two things are made during photosynthesis? | sugar and oxygen |
| What eats the sugars provided during photsynthesis? (hint: plant-eating animals) | consumers |
| If you are an organism that breaks down dead or decaying plants and animals what are you called? | decomposer |
| If you are an animal and you eat dead bodies after they start to rot what are you called? | scavengers |
| Name 2 scavengers: | vultures and raccoons |
| In an energy pyramid about what percent of the energy from the level below is lost? | 90% |
| If a species is removed from a food web what happens to the ecosystem? | it is thrown out of balance |
| When there is a struggle between organisms in an ecosystem...what is this callled? | competition |
| I am the size of the population that an area can support...this is called what. | its carrying capacity |
| When one organism is reliant on another organism for survival this is called? | interdependence |
| A lichen and an alga living together is an example of what type of relationship? | mutualism |
| Barnacles on the back of whales is an example of what type of relationship? | commensalism |
| A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits while the other is harmed is called? | parastism |
| What does the parasite feed off of? | host |
| When a parasite causes a serious problem for people it can be seen as a what? | disease |
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