Living things interact with each other in various ways, such as helping or competing with one another. They obtain energy and resources through food chains and webs. Changes in environments, including natural events like fires, can impact ecosystems by altering resources and interactions between species. Maintaining healthy environments is important for the survival of all living things.
27. Welcome to Final Jeopardy! You may wager as much or as little as you would like depending on how many points your team has. The category is: Data Analysis
28. You collect data in a field next to a stream over time. You trap and count 16 field mice and 10 rabbits. A beaver builds a dam that floods the field. You now trap and count 7 field mice and 4 rabbits. Interpret this data.
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to act on one another
This is when animals of the same kind live together and help each other.
This is the partnership when only one partner is helped.
While it drinks flower nectar, an insect spreads pollen among the flowers. Answers will vary.
A yucca moth provides a ball of sticky pollen from another yucca. In exchange it lays its eggs in the flower.
A herbivore
plants
Energy
The other parts of the food web will change.
A producer can make its own food while a consumer eats what is made by the producer.
struggle that happens when two or more living things need the same resource
Answers will vary
Space and food
Competition cycle
competition
a living thing that breaks down waste and things that have died
Living things and natural events
Hurricane, flood, tornado, volcano
It helps the other plants to grow by providing nutrients.
to break down, or rot
The mouth
Exercise and avoid germs
small living things that include bacteria and viruses, many of which can cause illness
true
food water shelter air clean environment
The beaver dam changed the habitat and the resources available to the mice and rabbits. Some of the mice and rabbits have either died or moved to another area.