Introduction to Ecology
The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment.
What is ecology?
Organisms that convert energy into food.
What are producers?
The process in which plants use energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
A group of organisms (same species) that lives in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
The predator eats the prey.
What is the relationship between predator and prey?
The living part of the environment.
What is a biotic factor?
Organisms that eat other organisms to get energy.
What are consumers?
The process of breaking down food to produce ATP.
What is cellular respiration?
When organisms join a population.
What is immigration?
The symbiotic relationship where one organism is harmed and the other benefits.
What is parasitism?
The nonliving part of the environment.
What is an abiotic factor?
A carnivore eats meat, but a herbivore doesn't, they eat plants.
What is the difference between a carnivore and a herbivore?
Where chlorophyll is stored.
What are chloroplasts?
When organisms leave a population.
What is emigration?
What is symbiosis?
A close long-term relationship between different species in a community.
A community of organisms and their nonliving environment.
What is a ecosystem?
An organism that eats both meat and plants.
What is a omnivore?
Green pigment that is stored in chloroplasts.
What is chlorophyll?
The maximum number of individuals of one species that the environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
The symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit from it.
What is mutualism?
Populations of different species that live and interact in an area.
What is a community?
A food chain is a path of energy transfer from producers to consumers. A food web is many connected food chains.
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Sugar that plants make during photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
The carrying capacity of a population suddenly drops.
What is a population crash?
The symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?