VOCABULARY
???=both benefit
???=one harmed another benefit
What is the difference between parasitism and mutualism
ONLY EATS PLANTS
What are primary consumers
???= nonliving and ??? = living
What is the difference between abiotic and biotic
EAT ONLY ANIMALS
What are seconday consumers
???= a species that originated and developed in its surrounding habitat and has adapted to living in that particular environment.
???= a species of plant or animal that outcompetes other species, causing damage to an ecosystem.
What is the difference between biology an ecology
Non-living factor in an ecosystem
What is an example of an abiotic factor
What creates it's own food
What are producers/Autotrophs
???=a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
???=a complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community.
What is compare food web and food chain
???= population expansion decreases as resources become scarce, leveling off when the carrying capacity of the environment is reached, resulting in an S-shaped curve.
???= population's per capita (per individual) growth rate stays the same regardless of population size, making the population grow faster and faster as it gets larger, resulting in an J-shaped curve.
What is the difference of logistic growth and exponential growth
An environmental scientist observed the stage of primary succession in an area and recorded his observations on note cards. Which of the following sequences show the correct order of events?
1. Pioneer species grow, die, and form soil
2. Volcano erupts leaving only ash and rock.
3. Mosses and lichens grow amongst the rock.
4. Plants grow and die in the soil, contributing more nutrients for other plants to grow.
What is
2, 1, 4, 3
lichens and mosses
What is the two pioneer species
when energy is passed in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, how much energy is lost and not transferred up the energy pyramid?
What is 90%