Vocabulary
Symbiosis
Arrgmnt of the envmnt.
Population dynamics
Short answer
100
Ecology
What is the study go the interactions of living organisms with one another and their environment?
100
If a relationship is beneficial to both species it is this type of symbiosis.
What is mutualism?
100
Anywhere on Earth where life exists.
What is the biosphere?
100
The largest population that an environment can support at any given time.
What is the carrying capacity?
100
This is how can abiotic factors affect living organisms.
What is?
200
Food chain or food web.
What is a diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms within an ecosystem?
200
A relationship where one species is helped where another species is harmed.
What is parasitism?
200
A group of similar organisms is this.
What is a population?
200
The study of how the numbers and composition of groups of organisms change through time and what influences these changes.
What is population dynamics?
200
These are 2 examples of species adaptation.
Examples: predator, prey, camouflage, defensive chemicals, warning coloration.
300
A diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy as food passes through the food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
300
A relationship where one species is helped and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
300
If we were studying humans, you would be an example of this level of organization.
What is an organism?
300
The percent of energy that is passed on by each level of an energy pyramid.
What is 10%?
300
This is what decomposers do in an ecosystem.
What is break down dead organisms for energy?
400
A resource that is scarce enough to limit the size of a population.
What is a limiting factor?
400
The name of the species that is harmed in a parasitic relationship.
What is the host?
400
A group of communities and its abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
400
List 3 examples of limiting factors.
What are food, water, and living space?
400
This is how the removal of one species can affect the entire ecosystem.
What is the disruption (change) of the food web and/or energy pyramid.
500
A living community together with its abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
500
The development of two species over time that is due to mutual influence, often in a way that makes the relationship more beneficial to both species.
What is coevolution
500
A group of populations that live closely together.
What is a community?
500
If a plant species generates 1,000 calories of energy, this much is passed on to the fourth trophic level.
What is 1 calorie?
500
These are two ways that humans are changing the biosphere.
What are: pollution, habitat destruction, and over-harvesting?
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