Terms
Ecology Terms
Relationships
Terms
Terms
100
An organism at the beginning of a food chain that produces its own food.
What is an autotroph?
100
community of iving organisms (biotic) and their physical (abiotic) environment
What is an ecosystem?
100
The relationship where one organism is harmed while the other benefits. (ex: tapeworm benefits and human is harmed; flea benefits and dog is harmed)
What is parasitism?
100
is in the stratosphere and protects us from the sun's harmful rays; is destroyed by CFC's from aerosols, AC, styrofoam production
What is ozone depletion?
100
relationship between 2 organisms (parasitism, commensalism, mutualism)
What is symbiosis?
200
Organisms, like plants, that can make their own food.
What are producers?
200
A group of individuals of a species that lives together and interbreeds.
What is a population?
200
A hunter<-----a fox<----a rabbit<----grass In this example, if the rabbit population increased, the fox population would probably ___________.
increase
200
movement of water through pores in the soil or permeable rock
What is percolation?
200
burning, how carbon returns to the atmosphere
What is combustion?
300
Organisms that feed off of other organisms.
What are heterotrophs?
300
Breaks down decaying organisms and nutrients are put back into the soil by bacteria and fungi like mushrooms.
What are decomposers?
300
A hunter<-----a fox<----a rabbit<----grass Name the primary consumer, secondary consumer and the autotroph or producer.
rabbit - primary fox - secondary grass - autotroph/producer
300
an animal that is hunted and killed
What is prey?
300
the measure of how many different species live in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
400
An organism that eats producers or other organisms for energy.
What are consumers?
400
An animal such as a vulture that eats things that are already dead.
What are scavengers?
400
A hunter<-----a fox<----a rabbit<----grass - In food webs or food chains, the arrow ALWAYS points to the direction that _____________ flows.
What is energy?
400
some event or force limits the growth of a population
What are limiting factors?
400
water moves into the atmosphere by evaporating from the leaves (sun driven process)
What is transpiration?
500
A consumer that eats ONLY producers.
What is a herbivore?
500
A consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals such as humans.
What is an omnivore?
500
This is transferred through an ecosystem by eating or consuming food. Hint: our pyramid
What is energy?
500
A biome that has a thick canopy of trees and plants. The amount of precipatation exceeds the amount of evaporation here.
What is a rainforest?
500
process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions
What is the greenhouse effect?
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