Symbiosis
One organism benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Eats animals.
What is a carnivore?
Any factor that restricts the size of a population.
What is a limiting factor?
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
Both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
One individual of a species.
What is a organism?
Eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
List two limiting factors.
What are food, water, shelter, available mates, predators, etc.?
Living factors in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
One organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
Gets energy from the Sun.
What is a producer?
This is why limiting factors are a good thing.
What is prevents a population from overpopulating?
Non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
The definition of predation.
What is one animal being eaten by another?
Two or more populations of species.
What is a community?
Gets energy from other organisms.
What is a consumer?
This would happen if all the producers were wiped out in an ecosystem. (Be specific)
What is the primary consumers would die off first followed the secondary consumers?
This is the significance of the arrows in a food chain or food web.
What is they show the flow of energy from the organism being eaten to the organism doing the consuming?
Bacteria in a person's digestive system feeds and breaks down the food, which the person is then able to absorb. This is an example of __________.
What is mutualism?
The arrows on a food web or food chain represent the movement of __________ and flow __________.
What is matter and energy?
This would happen if all the apex predators were wiped out in an ecosystem. (Be specific)
What is the primary consumers would overpopulate and over eat the producers which would lead to the downfall of that ecosystem?
When looking at a food pyramid, this is where most of the organisms and most energy are in the ecosystem.
What is the bottom?