What to Observe?

Review each question.  Observe your ecocolumn to complete each answer.

1. Name three abiotic factors.  Explain why the reason for each factor.

2. Name three abiotic factors.  why are your answers considered abiotic.

3. Fish can survive in the ecocolumn.  How do they breathe?  Explain the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle found in the aquarium.

4. P;ants can survive in the ecocolumn.  How do the plants get food?

5. Every living thing need energy.  Where does the ecocolumn get its source of energy?

6. Select a consumer in the ecocolumn.  Describe how this consumer gets energy form the sun?

7. What does the pH level tell you about the terrarium and aquarium?

8. What would happen to the terrarium if five more crickets were added.

9. Give an example of a biotic factor the is dependent on an abiotic factor.

Vocabulary for this unit:

abiotic

biotic

photosynthesis

carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle

energy

pH

neutral

base

resources

limiting factors

Click here for an ecology dictionary

http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/e77.html

practice your vocabulary at http://www.quia.com/jg/366695.html

return to ecocolumn

go to rubric for  ecocolumn observations.