Organization of Environment
_____ is the study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment.
Ecology
Producers produce their own food by?
Photosynthesis
the largest population that an environment can support at any given time
Carrying capacity
What type of symbiosis relationship is this? Plants called epiphytes, such orchids, live on other plants, which provide a place to grow. Epiphytes absorb, sunlight, water, and nutrients from their surroundings and make their own food.
Commensalism
Double Points:
What is the type of fish that lives in a commensalism relationship with sharks?
Remoras
The first level of the environmental organization is the organism. What is the next level?
Population
The three types of consumers are
Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore
the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms
What type of symbiosis relationship is this? There is a tiny wasp that lays its eggs in a variety of other insects, such as caterpillars, spiders, aphids, and flies. The wasp larvae feed on the host insect and eventually kill it.
Parasitism
Double Points:
_____ is a type of spider that hides on a yellow colored flower so that it is difficult for its prey to see.
Goldenrod spider
____ describes the nonliving parts of the environment including water, rocks, light, and temperature.
Abiotic
A type of omnivore that eats dead plans and animals is called?
Scavengers
the evolution of two species that is due to a mutual influence, often in a way that makes the relationship more beneficial to both species
coevolution
What type of symbiosis relationship is described? Acacia ants live on bullhorn acacia tree, which provides the ants with food and shelter. The ants deter grazing animals from eating the tree.
Multualism
Double Points:
Gray wolves are being brought back into what park in 1995?
Yellowstone National Park
An environment is made up of two groups of organisms. What are the two types?
Biotic & Abiotic
Bacteria and fungi are an example of what type of organism?
Decomposer
a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain
energy pyramid
What are the three types of symbiosis relationships?
Multalism, Commensalism, Parasitism
Double Points:
A caterpillar, a deer, and a rabbit all want to drink from the same puddle, eat the same plant, and bask in the same spot of sunlight. Are they competing members of a population? Why or why not?
No, each is a different spieces. Therefore, they are not competeting members of a population.
The correct order of the levels of environmental organization are:
Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biosphere
A grasshopper mouse is what type of consumer?
Omnivore
a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
food web
What are the four main ways that species and individuals affect each other?
Competition, predators and prey, symbiotic relationships, and coevolution
Double Points:
How might an omnivore be a link both at the beginning of a food web and near the end?
An omnivore can be at the beginning because it eats plants. It can also be near the end because it eats other consumers or can be eaten by other consumers.