Principles of Ecology
Levels of Organization
Nutrition and Energy Flow
Threats to Biodiversity
Population
100
Relationships between organisms and the environment is what?
What is Ecology?
100
The _______ is all members of a species living in a particular area.
What is population?
100
An autotroph can also be called this...
What is producer?
100
Acid rain has a Ph level of at least...
What is 5.6?
100
The number of organisms that an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
200
Name some abiotic factors in an environment.
What is light, temperature, water, soil, gases, and the Ph levels?
200
Interacting populations are....
What is Biological Community?
200
Heterotrophs eat these..
What is autotrophs?
200
This degrades aquatic habitats.
What is water pollution?
200
Food, disease, and predators are all examples of what?
What is Density Dependent Factors?
300
Trees, animals, fungi, and bacteria are all examples of what?
What is biotic factors?
300
Things that exist in a _______ are members of a community and their physical community.
What is Ecosystem?
300
These feed on the remains of organisms that have already been killed...
What is scavengers?
300
These are native to the area they are in.
What is exotic species?
300
This is how the birth rate can be calculated.
What is number of live births over 1000 per year.
400
The definition of species.
What is organisms that look alike and can mate?
400
Role a species fills in it's environment is ...
What is niche?
400
These break down dead organisms..
What is decomposers?
400
When a habitat is cleared out for other uses or by natural disaster.
What is habitat loss?
400
This is the definition of exponential growth.
What is as the population approaches carrying capacity growth slows?
500
This is abiotic and biotic factors relate.
What is they both make up and ecosystem?
500
When both organisms benefit it is called...
What is mutualism?
500
This is several food chains that interconnect...
What is food web?
500
When there is solid waste and trash on land.
What is land pollution?
500
These are examples of density independent factors.
What is temperature, storms, and flooding?
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