Unit 1: Topic 1-3 Flashcards
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What is Symbiosis?
An interaction between organisms of different species living in close proximity to each other in a relationship that lasts over time.
What is Mutualism?
A symbiotic relationship between two different types of organisms that is beneficial to both organisms.
What is Parasitism?
a symbiotic relationship between two different types of organisms in which one of the partners is harmed and the other benefits.
What is a Parasite?
an organism that lives on or in other organism (The Host) and feed on it.
What is a Host?
The organism that a parasite lives and feeds on.
What is Commensalism?
a symbiotic relationship between two different types of organisms in which one partner benefits and the other neither benefits or loses.
Name 5 resources of foods that a fox could survive with.
Grasses, grasshoppers, Rabbits, Mice, and berries.
3 animals that might hunt a fox for food.
Eagles, hawks, and wolves.
what are 3 areas you might study about the swift fox?
- Where they build their dens.
- What they eat
- How they raise their young
Why did swift foxes almost entirely disappear? (2 reasons)
- Swift foxes were accidentally killed when people were using poison to control wolves and coyotes that preyed on them.
- Swift foxes lost most of their homes the native prairie grassland because of humans developments with cities.
What are the 4 basic need that all living things have?
Food, water, shelter, and the ability to exchange gases.
What does the earthworm have?
Develop special features over time that helps them survive in their underground environment.
What does leaves have?
veins.
What are 2 structural adaptations that various birds have?
- Bones are hollow
2. long bills for feeding
Is learning to look both ways before crossing the street an adaptation? why or why not?
No, because it is not inherited it is learned and humans are not born knowing to look both ways crossing the street.
Do you think a successful parasite kills its host? why or why not?
No because they clean/help each other.
what is crittercam?
It is a small battery-operated video camera that can be attached to the shark by a small metal dart.
Name 4 natural resources that we use.
Trees, water, soil, minerals.
what are 4 impacts that cars have had on the environment?
- roads
- parking lots
- sprawling cities
- air pollution ( gas pollution.)
What are the trophic levels? list them in order.
1 Producers, primary consumer, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and decomposers.
which represents the water cycle? A, B, or C?
A) transpiration, evaporation, condensation, precipitation.
B) evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, condensation.
C) Precipitation, condensation, evaporation, transpiration.
A) transpiration, evaporation, condensation, precipitation.
What is the name of the female part of the flower and its parts?
Pistil/Carpel: stigma, style, and ovary
What is the name of the male part of the flower and its parts?
stamen: Anther, filament.
What is the names of the decomposers?
bacteria, fungi, Microscopic Actinomyeotes, earth worms.
