Ecology Scavenger Hunt
Nihar Tatapudi and Amit Verma 3rd Period
Biotic
Explanation: Amit is a living component in the ecosystem that can affect other organisms in his ecosystem, and/or eat other organisms as well.
Abiotic
Explanation: Quite simply, a rock is abiotic because it is not living and is within our ecosystem
Autotroph
Explanation: a plant such as this green plant is able to get its own food through photosynthesis and conversion of carbon dioxide by getting light energy from the sun.
Heterotroph
Explanation: Adithya is a heterotroph because he lives his daily life by eating food that he could not manufacture on his own organic nutrient-filled food, rather he eats chicken or other plant foods.
Food Chain
Explanation: Grass are the producers (or autotrophs), providing its own food, bugs are a primary consumer feeding off of the grass and plants, birds such as chickens or other birds are secondary consumers who feed off the bugs, and then Jefferson is a tertiary consumer who feeds on birds, such as a chicken or other birds.
Grass - producer
Worm - primary consumer
Bird - secondary consumer
Jefferson - tertiary consumer
Current Weather
Explanation: the weather that was occurring at the time of the picture being taken.
Carbon Cycle
Explanation: Aryan and Josh breathes out CO2, both our car and school emit CO2 by putting it into the atmosphere through its functions maybe a school kitchen and a car's functioning tires and also trees and plants which absorb and release CO2. Trees are producers that absorb the CO2 to make carbohydrates. Animals feed off the plants, thus allowing the carbon dioxide to once again enter the atmosphere
Josh and Aryan
Car
School
Plants
Leaves due to photosynthesis, can stay due to animal consumption
Trees
Leaves due to photosynthesis, can stay due to animal consumption
Water Cycle
Explanation: the clouds show that the water vapor in the air gets cold and forms clouds, the plant that contains droplets of water shows precipitation as water has condensed and cannot be held in the air. Collection is a good example of the water reaching the land as it soaks into the earth's surface and is ground water which may help plants or animals. And the process starts all over again.
Condensation
Precipitation
Collection
Nitrogen cycle
Explanation: nitrogen is used to make proteins and 78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen, the soil is nitrogen-fixing bacteria which releases nitrogen into the atmosphere and the bagel represents a dead plant/animal matter that is decomposing and its decaying matter is converted to other nitrogen, assimilated by plants, becoming excess nitrogen leading into the atmosphere.
Phosphorous cycle
Explanation: Phosphorus enters the biosphere almost entirely from the soil through absorption by plant roots. The soil releases organically-bound nutrients to plants through mineralization and in the cycle. This releases phosphorous into the soil which came down as water phosphates originally from the rain.
Mutualism
Explanation: Wiley is the smart guy while Kevin is the funny guy. Wiley can help Kevin understand school concepts better and get good grades while Kevin can help Wiley learn how to make jokes and be the funny guy he is!
Parasitism
Explanation: the highlighter is able to benefit my grades by allowing me to highlight pieces of text and remember information but the highlighter is harmed as it loses its color, or lead after multiple times of use.
Commensalism
Explanation: the organism is safely allowed to protect himself from rain and the hoodie does not become overused or hurt by the rain due to its fabric and material condition.