Animaly And Planty Stuff Flashcards
(33 cards)
What do the arrows on a food chain indicate?
Energy transfer
What is a food chain?
The energy transfer as one thing eats another
What is a food web?
Lots of food chains overlapping.
What does an energy pyramid show?
The amount of energy received each time something is eaten and what kind of consumer it is.
Biotic factors
Living things
Abiotic factors
Non-living things
Levels of organization are
Atoms, molecules, cell organelles, cells, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
Difference between decomposer and scavenger
Scavenger eats dead things decomposers decompose dead things.
Niche means
The role or job an animal has.
5 characteristics of the rainforest
- Very rainy
- warm
- Vines
- Thousands of species
- Deforestation
Desert characteristics
- Hot
- Dry
- Grows back slowly
- Lizards
- Bats
Grassland
- Warm
- Grassy
- Crop growth is bad for it
- Bison
- Rabbit
Deciduous forest
- Freezing winters
- Summer hot and humid
- Deforestation
- Bats
- Birds
Taiga
- Deforestation
- Long, cold, snowy winter
- Short, warm, moist summers
- Bears
- Moose
Tundra
- Drilling can be a problem
- Long, dark, freezing winters
- Short cool winters
- Lemmings
- Mosses
Salinity?
The amount of salt dissolved in water
Human impact on saltwater biomes
Over fishing
Human impact on freshwater biomes
Pollutants
Coral reef?
Under water stuff made from outside skeletons of tiny, soft, boiled animals called coral
Coral reefs are abiotic
False
Wetland?
Aquatic ecosystem that have a thin layer of water covering the soil that is wet most of the time containing fresh, salt or both water.
Factors that effect biodiversity
Area, climate niche
Why is biodiversity valued?
- Bigger gene pool
- Raw materials
- Oxygen
- Food
5 causes of extinction
- Poaching
- Pollution
- Habitat destruction
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes