Ecology
Ecology is the study of environments and the organisms in them. Scientists study how the organisms in specific ecosystems interact with each other. Ecosystems start with biospheres which are broken up by their corresponding biomes, flora, and fauna. Biomes are basically ecosystems grouped together by the temperatures and precipitation in those areas. Every community in an ecosystem is made up of all the species in that area, known as the different populations. Each individual in a population lives in its specified habitat and has a specified role that they play to keep the ecosystem balanced; this is known as their niche.
The biomes on earth are defined by the amount of precipitation in the form of rain or snow and the temperatures year-round. A tundra is cold and dry; taigas are cold and moist; temperate forests are seasonal; deserts are hot and dry, tropical rain forests are hot and moist; and savannas are seasonal, ranging from moist to dry. Biomes are formed as a result of the angle by which the sun hits the earth. Tropical rain forests are located around the equator, so they receive direct sunlight, which makes the rain forests hot while causing bodies of water around the equator to evaporate and come back down in the form of rainfall. At 30 degrees north and south of the equator, deserts are located. The reason deserts are so dry is because the air already condensed into water and now all that is left is dry air, which then falls back down at the 30 degrees latitude. At 60 degrees N/S, taigas are formed, while tundras are at 90 degrees as a result of getting no direct sunlight and having cold air all around them.
The biomes on earth are defined by the amount of precipitation in the form of rain or snow and the temperatures year-round. A tundra is cold and dry; taigas are cold and moist; temperate forests are seasonal; deserts are hot and dry, tropical rain forests are hot and moist; and savannas are seasonal, ranging from moist to dry. Biomes are formed as a result of the angle by which the sun hits the earth. Tropical rain forests are located around the equator, so they receive direct sunlight, which makes the rain forests hot while causing bodies of water around the equator to evaporate and come back down in the form of rainfall. At 30 degrees north and south of the equator, deserts are located. The reason deserts are so dry is because the air already condensed into water and now all that is left is dry air, which then falls back down at the 30 degrees latitude. At 60 degrees N/S, taigas are formed, while tundras are at 90 degrees as a result of getting no direct sunlight and having cold air all around them.
In a community―that is, all the populations in an area―organisms interact in 3 possible ways: 1) predator and prey, 2) competition, 3) or symbiosis. Predator and prey is a straightforward relationship in which one individual is in a higher trophic level than the other, and competition comes from species having the same niche, but symbiosis is a different type of close relationship. The 3 types of symbiosis that exist are parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. Parasitism is when one organism benefits from the interaction and one is harmed, commensalism is when one benefits and the other is unaffected, and mutualism is when both species benefit from the relationship.
Like most amphibians, the glass frog is a secondary consumer because its carnivorous diet consists of mainly insects, which are primary consumers. The granular glass frog lives in rain forests, because like all frogs, it cannot survive without being close to a water source. Frogs compete with other amphibians for