Interactions Human Impacts Environmental Choices Roles of Organisms Cycles Succession/ Monitorin g
A symbiotic relationship between two different types of organisms in which one of the partners is harmed and the other benefits
What is Parasitism ?
A symbiotic relationship between two different types of organisms that is beneficial to both organisms
What is a mutualism?
The organism that a parasite lives and feeds on
What is the host?
The study of the relationship between living organisms and their environment ?
What is ecology?
An interaction between organisms of different species living in close proximity to each other in a relationship that lasts over time
What is symbiosis?
The materials and products found in nature
What are natural resources?
Buying a pineapple from the grocery store
What is a want?
The location where an organism lives
What is a habitat or a need?
A pesticide used by humans that softens the eggshells of peregrine falcons
What is DDT?
Two examples of natural resources
What are trees, water, oil, minerals, etc?
Resources of nature are being renewed at least as quickly as they are being used, and all wastes are able to be completely absorbed
What is sustainability?
A calculation of the total area of land and water needed to supply all of the materials and energy a human uses, as well as absorb the waste produced
What is ecological footprint?
The three R’s
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
How many more planets humans might need to continue living as we do in North America
What is two?
When looking at sustainability, the three corners of the triangle
What is the environment, the economy and the people?
The role or characteristic activity that is undertaken by an organism in an ecosystem
What is niche?
An animal that eats only plant material
What is herbivore?
An organism that is caught and eaten by another organism of a different species
What is prey?
Organisms that break down the cells of dead or waste materials and absorb their nutrients
What is a decomposer?
An animal that eats other animals and plant material
What is an omnivore?
The cycle in which carbon is used and reused through the ecosystem
What is the carbon cycle?
The process in which water vapour changes into a liquid
What is condensation?
The process in which water that is taken in through a plant’s roots evaporates from the plant’s leaves and flowers
What is transpiration?
The element necessary for all life to exist
What is carbon?
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight
What is a photosynthesis?
The gradual process by which some species replace other species in an ecosystem
What is succession?
Controlling pests using their natural enemies
What is biological control?
Species which are introduced into an environment where they are not naturally found
What is introduced species?
When a species no longer exists anywhere in the world
What is extinct?
Plant or animal species that help us to identify environmental changes
What is an indicator species ?