Ecosystem Relationships
Ecosytems-
An ecosystem is a community of animals and plants interacting with their environment. Ecosystems are made up of biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) factors working together. An example of abiotic is water and an example of biotic is a plant. Ecosystems have producers and consumers. Producers make their own food and consumers et producers or other consumers(but those are on different levels).
An ecosystem is a community of animals and plants interacting with their environment. Ecosystems are made up of biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) factors working together. An example of abiotic is water and an example of biotic is a plant. Ecosystems have producers and consumers. Producers make their own food and consumers et producers or other consumers(but those are on different levels).
Changes in Ecosystems-
Conservation (protecting/preserving something) is what keeps ecosystems clean. Without it, we're not balancing the ecosystem, which is changing everyday. An example of this is succession, the gradual growth of new organisms in an ecosystem. There's also secondary succession, when an ecosystem has been wiped out and starts over from the beginning. Succession is meant to make an ecosystem survive and exist.
Conservation (protecting/preserving something) is what keeps ecosystems clean. Without it, we're not balancing the ecosystem, which is changing everyday. An example of this is succession, the gradual growth of new organisms in an ecosystem. There's also secondary succession, when an ecosystem has been wiped out and starts over from the beginning. Succession is meant to make an ecosystem survive and exist.
Food Chains-
Ecosystems are made up of food chains, the feeding relationships from one organism to another in an ecosystem. In the food chains, there are herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers. Herbivores get their energy form eating plants while carnivores get it from eating other insects and animas for meat. Because they et other living things, they are consumers. Decomposers break down dead plant or animal matter and release the nutrients back to the soil. When you put multiple food chains together, you get a food web.
Ecosystems are made up of food chains, the feeding relationships from one organism to another in an ecosystem. In the food chains, there are herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers. Herbivores get their energy form eating plants while carnivores get it from eating other insects and animas for meat. Because they et other living things, they are consumers. Decomposers break down dead plant or animal matter and release the nutrients back to the soil. When you put multiple food chains together, you get a food web.
Food Webs-
Food webs are different food chains put together. They're mdd up of many herbivores, carnivores, producers, decomposers, and omnivores. Omnivores are organisms that eat both plants and animals to get energy. Everything in a food web is a consumer.
Food webs are different food chains put together. They're mdd up of many herbivores, carnivores, producers, decomposers, and omnivores. Omnivores are organisms that eat both plants and animals to get energy. Everything in a food web is a consumer.
Symbiosis-
Symbiosis is the relationship between two organisms in a community. There are three types of symbiosis: parasitism, which benefits one organism and harms the other one, commensalism, where one organism benefits and the other organism is not harmed, and mutualism, when both benefit. Parasitism involves a parasite and a host. A parasite is an animal or plant that gets its food by living on/inside another animal or plant and the host is the organism that is harmed by the parasite.
Symbiosis is the relationship between two organisms in a community. There are three types of symbiosis: parasitism, which benefits one organism and harms the other one, commensalism, where one organism benefits and the other organism is not harmed, and mutualism, when both benefit. Parasitism involves a parasite and a host. A parasite is an animal or plant that gets its food by living on/inside another animal or plant and the host is the organism that is harmed by the parasite.
Biomes-
A biome is a major ecosystem made up of many habitats. There are six biomes on earth: taiga, tundra, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, dessert, and grassland. Each biome has a different climate, the unique temperature and precipitation found there. We live in the (temperate) grassland biome. Deciduous is the only biome to have four seasons.
A biome is a major ecosystem made up of many habitats. There are six biomes on earth: taiga, tundra, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, dessert, and grassland. Each biome has a different climate, the unique temperature and precipitation found there. We live in the (temperate) grassland biome. Deciduous is the only biome to have four seasons.
Population Growth-
A population is the amount of a certain species, or specific organism in an ecosystem. Limiting factors are living or non-living things that help control the growth of population in an ecosystem. Some examples are food, water, and sunlight. Species can be threatened, endangered, or extinct.
threatened species- a type of plant or animal that is danger of becoming endangered
endangered species- a type of plant or animal that is danger of becoming extinct
extinct species- a type of plant or animal that has died out completely
If you take one species out of an ecosystem it would ruin the balance of a food web and eventually all the species would be gone.
A population is the amount of a certain species, or specific organism in an ecosystem. Limiting factors are living or non-living things that help control the growth of population in an ecosystem. Some examples are food, water, and sunlight. Species can be threatened, endangered, or extinct.
threatened species- a type of plant or animal that is danger of becoming endangered
endangered species- a type of plant or animal that is danger of becoming extinct
extinct species- a type of plant or animal that has died out completely
If you take one species out of an ecosystem it would ruin the balance of a food web and eventually all the species would be gone.
Limiting factors^
Food Webs and Energy Pyramids
Phytoplankton is a producer and fish (small) eat it making it a producer/consumer relationship.
A shark eating an octopus is a predator/prey relationship.
Parasite/host relationship-Isopods have strong suckers, flat bodies, and sharp jaws used to attach to their host (just a fish).
A shark eating an octopus is a predator/prey relationship.
Parasite/host relationship-Isopods have strong suckers, flat bodies, and sharp jaws used to attach to their host (just a fish).
Tadpoles (consumers) eat algae (producers)
The largemouth bass is a predator and green sunfish are the prey
Parasite/host-
The largemouth bass is a predator and green sunfish are the prey
Parasite/host-
Find a food web and energy pyramid for the Terrestrial ecosystem and post the images.
Name a producer/consumer relationship in terrestrial ecosystem-
Name a predator/prey relationship in terrestrial ecosystem-
Name a parasite/host relationship in terrestrial ecosystem-
What is biodiversity and how does it affect the ecosystem?
Post an image of an environment that has a lot of biodiversity.
Where does the energy for all ecosystems originally come from?
Why do all organisms in an ecosystem depend on producers?
How does a food web help show feeding relationships in an ecosystem?
Name a producer/consumer relationship in terrestrial ecosystem-
Name a predator/prey relationship in terrestrial ecosystem-
Name a parasite/host relationship in terrestrial ecosystem-
What is biodiversity and how does it affect the ecosystem?
Post an image of an environment that has a lot of biodiversity.
Where does the energy for all ecosystems originally come from?
Why do all organisms in an ecosystem depend on producers?
How does a food web help show feeding relationships in an ecosystem?