By: Hanna Hall
Bio 2.1- Analyze the Interdependence of Living Organisms Within Their Enviorment
The Water Cycle- The water cycle is the process by which water circulates using the earth's oceans, land, and the atmosphere. The water cycle involves precipitation such as rain or snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and the atmosphere by using evaporation and transpiration.
The Carbon Cycle-The Carbon Cycle is the series of processes by which compounds are inter converted in the environment, mainly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide in living tissue by photosynthesis and it is returned to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organism's, and the burning of fossil fuels.
The Nitrogen Cycle-The Nitrogen Cycle is the series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are inter covered in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.
The Oxygen Cycle-The Oxygen Cycle is the biochemical cycle that describes the movement of oxygen within its three main reservoirs: the atmosphere, the total content of biological matter within the biosphere and the lithosphere.
- Structural Adaptions: A structural adaption are physical features on an organism. Such as body, shape, or size. For example a fish has fins to help it swim.
- Behavioral Adaptions:A behavioral adaption is how an animal acts and behaves in order to stay alive due to its climate. It can be distinctive or used for protection. An example would be a bear migrating.
- Reproductive Adaptions:A reproductive adaption is a peculiarity of the reproductive mechanism of a species which results in it being better fit for its environment.
- Predation: Predation is when a predator feeds on its prey. Predators may not kill their prey before eating them but the act of Predation usually results in the death of the prey and the eventual absorption of the preys tissue through consumption. An example of this would be a lion (the predator) hunting down a gazelle (the prey).
- Competition:Usually Carnivores have the largest population in an environment because they don't have much competition. An example is that a single hyena could not tackle a heard of lions and get away successfully. But Lions are much stronger and if they went after the hyena they would have no problem killing it because it has no competition against the hyena.
- Parasitism:Parasitism is the relationship between two species in which one benefits of the other. An example would be a tick feeding off of a dog.
- Mutualism: Mutualism is the way different species exist in a relationship where each individual benefits. An example would be an Oxpecker (a bird) and the Zebra. The Oxpecker land on the Zebra and eats ticks and other parasites that live on their skin.