Ecology Vocab
The study of interactions among living organisms and nonliving things.
What is Ecology?
Living factors within an environment
What is biotic factors?
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
This includes condensation, precipitation, pooling and runoff.
What is the water (hydrologic) cycle?
The effect of poisonous mushrooms on the rabbit population.
What is biotic factor?
A species that is not native and has a negative impact on the environment.
What is an invasive species?
The phosphorus cycle is most affected by this human activity.
What is mining or agriculture?
The soil, air, and water within an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
When the last known individual of a species dies.
What is extinction or going extinct?
This cycle is affected by cars and other forms of motor vehicles.
What is the carbon cycle?
The tropical climate in a rainforest.
What is abiotic factor?
The total mass of living matter at each trophic level
What is biomass?
During this, some soil bacteria convert fixed nitrogen compounds back into nitrogen gas.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The five levels of organization in order from smallest to largest are...
What is organism (individual), population, community, ecosystem, biome?
The effect of introducing a non-native species into an environment.
What is biotic factor?
A fungus that infects and controls an insect's brain in order to reproduce.
What is a cordyceps fungus?
The level of nourishment (energy) available in the food chain.
What is a trophic level?
This includes sinks, combustion, respiration and photosynthesis.
What is the carbon cycle?