Definitions
The study of habitats.
What is Ecology?
All of the NON-LIVING elements in an ecosystem. examples- Air, water and temperature
What is Abiotic?
Matter is made up of tiny particles called.
What is Atoms?
All of the LIVING elements in an ecosystem
What is Biotic?
A liquid changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor.
What is Evaporation?
Food, water, and shelter are known as these
A state of balance or a tendency to be a relatively stable system.
What is homeostasis?
the development of primary communities in a previously uninhabited and barren habitat with little or no soil.
What is Primary Succession?
A chain including the organisms and their food source.
What is a food chain?
The process of rain water soaking into the ground, into the soil and underlying rock layers
What is Infiltration?
The ability of a population to withstand fluctuations of biotic and abiotic factors.
What is Tolerance?
When a species is no longer in existence. (Give an example also)
What is Extinction?
The reestablishment of a community that has been destroyed by a natural disaster.
What is Secondary Succession?
Word meaning a species is in danger of extinction throughout all of a significant portion of its range.
What is Endangered?
What is Transpiration?
The average number of organisms that can be sustained in an ecosystem.
what is carrying capacity?
The number and variety of organisms found within a specified region.
what is Biodiversity?
The first group of organisms to arrive after the devastation of an ecosystem is typically the lichen and moss. These would be known as...
what is the Pioneer Species?
Multiple chains assembled into one large web.
What is a food web?
What is Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration?
The name of all of the living mass on Earth.
What is Biomass?
Label these terms in the correct order of size or number of individuals. from smallest to largest.
Ecosystem/Biosphere/Biome/Species/Community/ Population
Species->Population->Community-> Ecosystem->Biome->Biosphere
a stable mature community which has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment.
What is a Climax Community?
What are Decomposers?
The changing of free nitrogen gas to a useable form is called.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?