The study of interactions between organisms and their environment
What is Ecology
100
The smallest of the levels of ecological organization, a living thing that contains all of the characteristics of life
What is an organism?
100
relationship in which one animal hunts and kills the other
What is predator/prey relationship
100
Animals that eat only plants
What is an herbivore
100
characteristics of this biome include cacti, snakes and scorpions
What is the desert
200
All of the non-living factors is an ecosystem
What is abiotic factors
200
Organism that can make its own food
What is an autotroph or a producer?
200
relationship in which one member is helped and the other is harmed
What is parasitism or a parasite
200
Several food chains linked together
What is a food web
200
Characteristics of this Biome incluse palm trees, tree frogs and many birds and insects
What is the rain forest?
300
All of the living factors in an ecosystem
What is biotic factors
300
All of the organsims of the same species in one area at a given time
What is a population?
300
Relationship in which both members benefit
What is mutualism
300
Shows the transfer of energy form one organism to another
What is a food chain?
300
Characteristics of this biome include pine and fir trees, moose, lynx and snowshoe hare.
What is the taiga?
400
An organism's job in its community
What is niche
400
all of the living populations in an area
What is a community
400
Relationship in which one member is helped and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism
400
This is the percentage of energy passed on from one trophic level to the next in a food chain.
What is 10%?
400
Characteristics of this biome include tall grasses, clams, fish and cranes.
What is an estuary?
500
The place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
500
This is the correct order of the levels of ecological organization starting with an individual organism and going up from smallest to largest.
What is Organism --- Population --- Community ---Ecosystem --- Biosphere
500
The interaction of all of the living and non-living factors in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
500
This shaped diagram is used to show that energy transfer from one trophic level to the next significantly decreases as you move up through the trophic levels.
What is an energy pyramid?
500
Characteristics of this biome include small grasses, no trees and reindeer.