Dietary Habits
Human Impact
Ecological Levels of Organization
Food Webs
Ecology Vocabulary
100

This organism eats only meat

Carnivore

100

What are two ways humans have positively impacted our environment?

Removed dams (helped bring fish back over time, not immediately)

Planting trees

Restoration of Orca populations in Puget Sound due to increased Salmon populations

Use of microbes in the process of bioremediation

anything else that is logical or discussed in class

100

This is the entire world

Biosphere

100

The first consumer in a food web

Primary Consumer

100

A living organism is considered to be this

biotic

200

This organism eats plants and animals

Omnivore

200

What are two ways humans have negatively impacted the environment?

Clearcutting trees

Oil spills

Installing dams along rivers

Putting the Orcas in captivity

Overfishing

Etc...

200

A single living plant or animal

Organism

200

The second consumer in a food web or chain

Secondary Consumer

200

Competition between same sepecies.

Intraspecific competion.

300

This organism eats only plants

Herbivore

300

This process is the spread of contaminants throughout the food web from the producers into the apex or top predators.

biomagnification

300

This is a group of biotic factors that differ from one another

Community
300

The third consumer in a food web or chain

Tertiary Consumer

300

Competition between different species.

Interspecific competition

400

This organism must eat others for food

Heterotroph

400

This process uses microbes to decrease the amount of contaminants in our environment.

bioremediation

400

This is all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area

Ecosystem

400

he position an organism occupies in a food web or pyramid

Trophic Level

400

Where an organism lives

Habitat

500

This organism makes its own food from sunlight

Autotrophs

500

Why did the bromothymol blue (BTB) turn yellow when the bacteria were added to the test tube?

What is this process called where all organisms break down sugar to obtain energy?

The bacteria produced carbon dioxide during the process of cellular respiration.

500

This is a group of biotic factors that are all the same

Population

500

The top predator in a food web or chain

Apex Predator

500

The role an oragism plays in its hatibat is called this

Niche

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