Vocab 1
What is the scientific discipline in which the relationships among living organisms and the interaction the organisms have with their environments are studied?
Ecology
What is a group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time?
biological community
What is a name for an organism that is being pursued by another organism?
Prey
What is the difference between biotic factors and abiotic factors?
abiotic - non-living things
Worms and many aquatic insects that live on stream bottom and feed on small pieces of dead plants and animals are called what?
Detritivores
What is the portion of Earth that supports life?
Biosphere
What is a biological community and all the abiotic factors that affect it?
Ecosystem
The close relationship that exists when two or more species live together is called?
Symbiosis
In the biology level of organization, what is the highest level of organization?
Biosphere
Anything that takes up space and has mass is called what?
Matter
The living factors in an organism's environments are called the ?
biotic factors
What is a large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities?
Biome
The relationship between two or more organisms that live closely together and benefit from each other is called?
Mutualism
In the biology level of organization, what is the smallest level of organization?
Organism
The exchange of matter through the biosphere is called what?
The biogeochemical cycle
The nonliving factors in an organism's environment are called?
Abiotic factors
What is an area where an organism live?
habitat
What is the name for an organism that collect energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food?
Autotroph
A picture model of a producer leading to a herbivore, then leading to an omnivore, then leading to a carnivore is an example of what?
Food chain
What is the name for the process where some soil bacteria convert fixed nitrogen compounds back into nitrogen gas, which returns it to the atmosphere are called?
Denitrification
Individual organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location at the same time make up a ______?
population
What is the name of an organism that pursues another organism?
Predator
What is an organism that gets its energy requirements by consuming other organisms?
Heterotroph
Give an example of an omnivore
Human
What is the name for the total mass of living matter at each trophic level, decreases at each tropic level.
Biomass