Ecological Savenger Hunt
By: Clare Weber and Caroline Ferree
Biotic
Biotic means that the organisms are living. Caroline and Clare are living people.
Autotroph
An autotroph is an organisms that makes it own food. These trees make their own food.
Heterotroph
A heterotroph is an organisms that cannot makes it's own food, so to gain energy and food they eat other organisms.
Food Chain
A food chain is a sequence of who eats who in a community. These is like a food chain because it is the order of age in a community/school.
Carbon Cycle
The carbon cycle is the circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again. This is four ways how carbon dioxide is released into the environment and one way carbon is taken out.
Humans release carbon dioxide into the environment when we breathe out.
Carbon dioxide is released into the environment when plants die.
Carbon dioxide is released when fuels are burned.
Carbon dioxide comes from making cement because when the limestone is heated carbon dioxide is released.
Water Cycle
The water cycle is the path water takes when circulating from land up to the sky and back again. These pictures represent water being on the ground and soon going back into the sky by the water cycle.
Nitrogen Cycle
The nitrogen cycle describes how nitrogen moves between plants, animals, the atmosphere and soil.
Nitrogen is the atmosphere and in this plant.
Nitrogen in proteins for animals or humans to eat.
Nitrogen in decaying matter.
Phosphorus Cycle
The phosphorus cycle is the process of phosphorus traveling through ecosystems to living organisms.
Phosphorus starts in rocks.
It travels through soil and plants.
The it travels to animals.
Mutualism
A mutualistic relationship is when two organisms both benefit from their relationship. In this picture we see a bee getting food from the plant and the flower gets pollenated.
Commensalism
A commensalism relationship is one of the two organisms get benefited. A cast is a commensalism relationship because the cast heals the injured persons bone and the cast gets nothing from it.
Parasitism
A parasitism relationship is when one of the organism benefits from the other one while the other organism is harmed. Lice is a parasitism because lice grow in the hair of the human and the person is harmed.