Define
The study of the relationships between organisms and each other, in relation to their environment.
What is ecology?
Solar radiation is converted into energy for living organisms to use through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This type of animal eats a variety of foods.
What are generalists (or omnivores)?
Provides new knowledge between people and nature.
Why do we study ecology?
An organism that can produce its own food.
What is an autotroph?
Energy is pass down through tropic levels.
True or false?
False
This type of animals eat few to one type of food.
What are Specialists?
Organisms, communities, population and ecosystem.
What are the types of ecology?
The role, or way of life of a species within its environment.
What is a niche?
The Earth's resources are finite. True or false?
True
Biosphere, biome, ecosystems, community, population, and species
What are the levels of ecology?
This is when ecology became more popular.
What is the 1960's?
Only one species benefits without harming or benefitting the other.
What is commensalism?
What is the common number of links in a food chain?
Four
The survival of species is dependent on other living organisms and non-living things.
What is interdependence?
What is the difference between ecology and ecosystem?
Ecology is the study between living organisms and their environment,
Ecosystem is the place where interactions between non-living and living things occur.
It covers large areas and is characterized by the climate and the types of plants and animals that are found there.
What is a biome?
Basic beliefs about ecosystems and how they function.
What are ecological principles?
Hawk and owls occupy a different _____.
Owls hunt during the night, hawks hunt during the day. If two species occupy the same _________, they would constantly be in competition.
What is an example of a niche?
What are the main branches in ecology?
Marine and Terrestrial Ecology.