Intro to ecology
Definition of ecology
What is The study of how organisms interact with one another and the environment
What do all living things need to survive?
What is chemical energy
What is a population?
What is a group of organisms that live in the same area
Does a predator eat prey or does prey eat predators?
What is predators eat prey
Definition of a biotic factor
What is a living thing in an environment
What is something that uses energy to make food?
What is a producer
Do population usually stay the same size?
What is yes, due to the carrying capacity
What is a tool predators use to blend in?
What is camoflauge
What is an abiotic factor?
What is a non-living thing in an environment
What is a decomposer?
What is an organism that gets its energy by breaking down nutrients
What is it called when organisms leave a population?
What is emigration
In mutaulism, do both organisms benifit or get harmed?
What is benifit
What is a population
What is a group of the same species
What is a herbivore?
What is a consumer that only eats plants
What factor leads to a change in the carrying capacity?
What is environmental changes
What are all three types of symbiosis?
What is mutaulism, commensalism and parasitism
What is a niche?
What is a role an organism plays in an environment.
What is bigger a food chain or a food web?
What is a food web
What is a population crash?
What is when the population drops
True or False: Competition cannot happen between the same species.
What is False