Ecosystems
Populations
Competition
Flow of Energy
Flow of Matter
100
Which of the following is NOT an abiotic part of an ecosystem?
the sun
air
a leaf
water
What is a leaf?
100
Population change by moving into an area
What is immigration?
100
The type of symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
100
Plants use energy from the sun to make glucose through this process
What is photosynthesis?
100
This cycle includes precipitation
What is the water cycle?
200
Which of following is a biotic part of an ecosystem?
the sun
air
grass
water
What is grass?
200
Population change by moving out of an area
What is emmigration?
200
The type of symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is not impacted.
What is commensalism?
200
This type of organism converts energy from the sun into energy that is transferred to the food chain
What is a producer?
200
This cycle includes respiration
What is the carbon cycle?
300
The smallest level of organization in an ecosystem
What is an organism?
300
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing
What is a limiting factor?
300
A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to an environment
What is an adaptation?
300
This type of organism eats only plants
What is an herbivore or a primary consumer?
300
This cycle includes photosynthesis
What is the carbon cycle?
400
All the different populations in an area
What is a community?
400
The maximum population a given habitat can support
What is carrying capacity?
400
The population of hares in 1865
What is about 140,000?
400
An example of a secondary consumer in this food web
What is an owl, a bird, a frog, or fox?
400
Burning these sends alot of carbon into the atmosphere
What are fossil fuels?
500
All the members of a species living in an area
What is a population?
500
The population density of 200 ants in a 100 m2 area
What is 2 ants per m2?
500
Between these years the lynx population underwent the most population growth
What is 1860 and 1868/69?
500
This organism is a tertiary consumer
What is a snake or hawk?
500
Nitrogen is taken from the atmosphere through this process
What is nitrification?