Energy Flow
What is an organism that makes its own food?
A producer (autotroph)
What is a relationship in which both species involved benefit.
Mutualism
What is an individual living thing?
An organism
These are resources that cannot be replenished.
Nonrenewable
What is a living thing called?
Biotic
This is known as a certain type of animal in its own group.
Species
This is all the organisms of the same species.
A population
This is the process of water forming clouds.
Condensation
List 3 characteristics of a living organism
What is a reproduction, use energy, waste, growth/development, homeostasis, adaptation/adjustment, made of cells.
This is a primary consumer, it only eats producers.
A herbivore
This is a relationship in which one of the species involved benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Commensalism
What is the smallest unit of life?
Cells
This is the process of reclaiming and reusing raw materials.
Recycling
What is a nonliving thing called?
Abiotic
This is the number of living things within with in an area.
Population
Organisms that make their own food are referred to as...
An autotroph or producer
This is one possible way of getting carbon into the atmosphere.
Combustion, respiration, or fossil fuels
What is the largest level of organization?
What is bioshpere
This is a secondary or tertiary consumer, it eats only other animals.
A carnivore
This is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
Parasitism
An organism that makes its own food from energy is...
A Producer
The ultimate source of energy for all organisms in life is...
Sun
Grass, trees, insects are all examples of
Biotic factors
This is all the populations together in an ecosystem
Community
Total amount of living tissue within a trophic level.
Biomass
The process when water vapor turns to snow.
Condensation
_________ can not be create or destroyed.
Energy
They can be found on any trophic level, they eat both producers and consumers.
An Omnivore
Mistletoe living on a spruce tree and using it for its food supply is..
Parasitism
If two organisms are in competition for the same resource what will eventually happen?
One population will die off OR both population sizes will decrease in order to coexist
The changing of temperatures and climates is known as...
Climate change
Oxygen and Sunlight are examples of
Abiotic
This is living organisms who live together and compete for resources in a given area.
Ecosystem
The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
Natural selection
Water leaving plants and returning to the atmosphere is called
Transpiration
Why is there a decrease in organisms when you move up the trophic levels of a food chain?
Larger animals require more food and there are less carnivores.
They receive the least amount of energy in a food chain.
Decomposer
An example of this, is a butterfly feeding on the nectar from a flower while pollinating the flower.
Mutualism
What is the top consumer in a food chain called?
A Carnivore
Carbon dioxide, methane, and water pertain to what?
Greenhouse gases
Bacteria and Fungi are examples of...
Biotic factors
This is where many ecosystems are in the same region together.
Biome
Any organism that gets nutrition from outside.
A heterotroph
It is the only biochemical cycle that does not cycle through the atmosphere but only cycles through water, soil, and rocks..
Phosphorus cycle
The difference between a food web and food chain
Interrelationships between organisms: (also biodiversity amongst food choices in a food web)
It is the percent of energy that gets lost at each trophic level.
10%
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice, this is an example of what type of symbiosis?
Commensalism
The definition of Ecology
The study of interactions among organisms and their environment.
A resource that cannot be replenished.
A non-renewable resource
List three biotic and three abiotic factors.
Biotic- grass, animals, tress, insects, bacteria
Abiotic- rock, sun, air, temperature
The entire globe as a whole.
Biosphere
What is the classification of organisms into groups.
Taxonomy
This can be in the soil for plants and then released into the atmosphere.
Nitrogen Cycle
A volcano erupts and destroys the surrounding area, what succession follows?
Primary Succession