2.8: Summative Questions
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- What roles do plants fill in an ecosystem?
- How are plants involved in nutrient cycling?
- What organisms play complementary roles to plants with regard to nutrient cycling? Explain your answer.
- Explain how Allotropa, Matsutake, and tanoaks are connected within an ecosystem. Which of these organisms are producers and which are consumers?
- Symbioses often result in coevolution of the organisms involved. In the lab, you saw coevolution from mutualistic symbioses. Describe how a parasitic symbiosis could result in coevolution of both organisms.
- Make a concept map using the following terms. The terms below should go into bubbles. Arrange these bubbles in a way that helps communicate relationships between the terms, then connect the bubbles with lines that have a verb or action phrase attached to them. It might help to start by organizing the words into related groups. You can use words more than once. For example, I could connect the bubbles “Autotroph” and “Photosynthesis” with a line that said “makes food via”. The concept would be “an autotroph makes food via photosynthesis.”
- Autotroph
- Photosynthesis
- Chemosynthesis
- Heterotroph
- Primary producer
- Primary consumer
- Secondary consumer
- Tertiary consumer
- Decomposer