Ecological Levels
Groups of organisms occupying a particular space at the same time.
What is a population?
Within a body of water: based on salt content or salinity.
What is Aquatic Biome?
The pursuit, capture and killing of animals for food.
What is predation?
A linear representation of the transfer of energy.
What is a food chain?
Individual members of a population.
What is an organism?
The largest biome since there is more salt water than land.
What is marine?
Occurs when two or more organisms compete for limited environmental resources.
What is competition?
What organism gathers energy from the Sun and makes its own food?
What is a producer?
Dominated by grasses with 2 subcategories; tropical and temperate.
What is grasslands?
Abiotic and biotic elements interact within a biome.
What is an ecosystem?
Dominated by aquatic vegetation and poorly draining soil.
What is the wetlands?
Both species benefit from this interaction.
What is mutualism?
A collection of food chains interconnected from the same ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Wetland with trees.
What is a swamp?
Group of different populations of flora and fauna species.
What is a community?
Dry, terrestrial biome with little to no rainfall each year.
What is a desert?
One organism benefits and one is not affected.
What is commensalism?
They eat the producers.
What is a primary consumer?
What is marshes?
The amount of energy that is transferred between each level of the energy pyramid.
What is 10%?
Cold, frozen landscape covered in permafrost.
What is a Tundra?
This relationship has one organism benefit and hurts the other organism.
What is parasitism?
The very top of the food chain with no natural predators.
What is an Apex predator?
Name the 4 kinds of wetlands.
What is a bog, fen, marsh and swamp?