Basic Ecology
A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together.
What is Population?
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
What is the Food Chain?
Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plan.
An arctic biome surrounding the north pole.
What is the Tundra?
Divided into vertical zones based on the amount of sunlight each zone receives.
What is the Ocean Biome?
The study of the interactions between living and non-living things.
What is Ecology?
Organisms that produce their own food.
What are Producers?
The movement of carbon atoms between organic and inorganic molecules in the biosphere.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Found in temperate climates and consist mainly of trees that lose their leaves in the fall.
What is a Temperate Deciduous Forest?
Found in shallow tropical ocean waters.
Any living part of an environment.
What are Biotic Factors?
Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food.
What are Consumers?
A close relationship between two or more species where at least one benefits.
What is Symbiosis?
These are wet and warm all year round with abundant vegetation.
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
Biomes of running water.
What are Rivers and Streams?
A group of populations living and interacting in the same area.
What is a Community?
An organism that eats primary consumers.
What is a Secondary Consumer?
The physical processes that cause oxygen to be used up and replenished.
What is the Oxygen Cycle?
A dry climate with rocky or sandy terrain and little vegetation.
What is a Desert?
Standing freshwater biomes.
What are Lakes and Ponds?
The sum of all of Earth’s ecosystems in land, water, or air.
What is the Biosphere?
Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms.
What are Decomposers?
The process by which certain gasses trap heat that would otherwise escape the Earth and radiate into space.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
A tropical climate with rolling grasslands and only two seasons - a long dry season and a long wet season.
What is a Savanna?
Found anywhere the ocean meets a freshwater river or stream.
What are Estuaries?