Ecology worksheet #3_Belinda Viernes - BSCriminology

Biotic or Abiotic?

(Classify the following into biotic or abiotic factors)

Biotic Biotic

1. Whale 19. Clock

2. fish 20. Water
3. corpse 21. paper
4. snail 22. glass
5. steak 23. pipe
6. salad 24. wool
7. bread 25. sand
8. Plant 26. cloud
9. Grasses 27. air
10. hair 28. plastic
11. Pork chop 29. gold
12. trees 30. aluminum
13. Wooden ruler
14. Sea anemone
15. Finger nail
16. Cotton fabric
17. hydra
18. humus

Part 1: Organisms and their Relationships

Differentiate between a local organism’s habitat and niche found in your community.

The habitat is not only the place where it lives (or the address), but it would
include also the environmental conditions for what it is adapted to live and it has
evolved. The niche is not only the function, but the resources that it need to explode  it
includes the function that it made, but also the environmental conditions, the space and
time that it needs to made his function and lives.
 Part 2: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem Construct a Food Chain in a Corn Field using
the following organisms:
Spider

Corn Borer Larva

Bird (Maya)

Corn Plant

Snake

Hawk
Bacteria

Part 2: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem Construct a Food Web using the following
organisms:

Cow

Grains

Pig Man Fungi/Bacteria

Grass

Chicken
 Part 2: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem Construct a Food Web in a Corn Field using the
following organisms:
spider

Corn Borer Larva

Frog

Corn Plant •Bird (Maya)

Fungi/bacteria
Dried Leaves of Corn Plant

Part 2: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem construct a Food Web using the following
organisms:
shrew
rabbit
cabbage

mouse

shrub snake

grass

beetle

Decomposer lizard
 Part 2: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem Construct a Food Web using the following
organisms and answer the follow-up questions:

frog
grasshopper Field rat

caterpillar

chicken

snake
Corn plant

hawk
Fungi/bacteria

Questions:

1. Which is the producer in this simple food web?

Corn Plant

2. What are the 1st order consumers?

Caterpillar and Grasshopper

3. Which consumer populations are hawks dependent on?

Fungi/Bacteria

4. How about the snakes?

Hawk, Fungi/ Bacteria

5. What important role do decomposers play in the food web?

The important of decomposer is to break down dead plants and animals and also
waste. Decomposer provide a new fertilizer for new plants grows

6. Derive two food chains in the food web.

1. Corn plant-------grasshopper--------frog-------snake------hawk-------decomposer

2. Caterpillar-------chicken----------hawk-----------decomposer

7. Why do organisms experience competition in a specific environment?

Organisms compete for the resources they need to survive- air, water, food, and
space. In areas where these are sufficient, organisms live in comfortable co-existence,
and in areas where resources are abundant, the ecosystem boasts high species
richness (diversity).

Examples Type of Ecological

Relationship

1. algae and fungi commensalism

2. ants and aphids mutualism

3. barnacles on the mussel commensalism

4. clown fishes and sea mutualism

anemone

5. different trees in a forest commensalism

6. lions eating a buffalo preditation

7. mosquitoes sucking the parasitism

human blood
8. orchids and trees commensation
9. Rafflesia and Tetrastigma commensalism

10. two red deer competing Mutualism, parasitism, commensalism

for space