https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc Your padlet post must provide an understanding of the ecology term. In order words, Show me that you know what it's all about! Include the following: (1) Your name (2) Your assigned vocabulary word (3) definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS; Do NOT copy (4) example/scenario including the word (5) appropriate image representing your understanding of the word en-us 2018-12-11 19:50:20 UTC 2024-12-06 02:55:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665575 Where one species benefits and nothing happens to the other. 
A blue bird makes a nest in a tree so it can have a home. The tree is not affected. ]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665575 dominic_brabant https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665786 Dominic Brabant
Definition: An animal that only eats other animals
Example: Lions, which are carnivores, eating the dead zebra]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665786 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665818 a plant that forms a crustlike, leaflike, or branching 
growth on rocks, walls, and trees. It arises from algae and cyanobacteria. 
Moss is a type of lichen.

]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665818 matthew_duong1 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665829 Nitrogen Fixation:
The chemical processes in which nitrogen from the atmosphere is turned into an organic compound by special microorganisms.
Example: The change of nitrogen gas into a solid nitrogen that is usable by plants.]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665829 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665894 levels in an ecosystem, organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy

ex. producers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores

   ]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665894 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665939 An organism that eats both plants and animals.
Bears are omnivores since they eat fish and some plants.
Lauren Umble]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665939 annabel_whitton https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665993 Food web-  This is a connection between food chains. This shows the relationships of different organisms.

]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665993 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665996 Nathan Heck
A pyramid to show  how much biomass or energy that is at each trophic level.
Example: A rabbit eats a plant and only gets 10% of the 100% energy.]]> 2018-12-14 14:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314665996 rylee_ross https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666090 A heterotroph is an organism getting energy from a more complex organism. It can't make it's own food.

Us humans are heterotrophs, because we need to find other food rather than make it.]]> 2018-12-14 14:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666090 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666324 Biotic Factors are the living things that shape the atmosphere. Examples of biotic components include animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria.]]> 2018-12-14 14:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666324 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666384 it starts out in the air then it moves into the soil and the bacteria fixes it. then it goes through the other bacteria, and then it goes to the plant or if there's too much it will go back in the air where it started.

]]> 2018-12-14 14:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666384 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666396 A process started by an event that reduces the size, or changes the already established ecosystem.

Ex: A forest fire going through a forest. 

Sawyer Shertzer]]> 2018-12-14 14:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666396 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666630  Eats mostly plants. Examples: Cow, Sheep, Zebra, Giraffe ]]> 2018-12-14 14:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666630 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666654 Mutualism refers to a relationship between two different organisms where both benefit . For example, bees get nectar which is produced by flowers, and transport it to other plants allowing for pollination.

-Habssatou Mamadou ]]> 2018-12-14 14:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666654 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666709  A symbiotic relationship between or among living things that compete for a limited resources such as food, space, shelter, mate, ecological status. Example, during rut, bucks will fight each other for a mate.   ]]> 2018-12-14 14:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666709 logan_kline https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666791 Primary succession occurs in essentially lifeless areas—regions in which the soil is incapable of sustaining life as a result of such factors as lava flows, newly formed sand dunes, or rocks left from a retreating glacier. An example of Primary Succession is the formation of new islands. ]]> 2018-12-14 14:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666791 jacquelyn_hill https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666808 Definition: An organism that makes it's own food. 
Example: Plants are autotrophs because they make their own food. ]]> 2018-12-14 14:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666808 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666918 Gabe Catalan

The total mass of organisms in a given place.

An example of biomass is wood. Dead trees, branches, and tree stumps.]]> 2018-12-14 14:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314666918 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314667042 Photosynthesis- When a plant uses sunlight to create his own food use energy of light to create carbon dioxide into sugar. glucose,oxygen and water go in and then glucose and carbon dioxide come out.]]> 2018-12-14 14:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314667042 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314667055 -Primary productivity is a term used to describe the rate at which plants and other photosynthetic organisms produce organic compounds in an ecosystem.

Examples include : Lichen , Trees, Grasses , Ferns, M0sses]]> 2018-12-14 14:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314667055 https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314670919  The first species to colonize an ecosystem that is previously damaged or disrupted. Example: Lichens ]]> 2018-12-14 14:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_gonzalez/e1w226d63wwc/wish/314670919