Vocabulary
Concepts
Ecology
Root Words
Random
100
An organism or plant that naturally occurs in a specific region
What is native?
100
Radiant energy is converted into energy for living organisms to use through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
100
An organism that can produce its own food.
What is an autotroph?
100
chlor-
What is green?
100
Type of symbiotic relationship between a human and a mosquito
What is parasitic?
200
The complete disappearance of a species
What is extinction?
200
What percent of energy is transferred to the next level in the Energy Pyramid?
What is 10%
200
Interconnected food Chains; shows the transfer of energy.
What is a food Web?
200
endo
What is within, inner or inside?
200
What biome has the largest range of temperature
What is the desert?
300
A organism that is not native to the area and causes harm to the environment, economy or human health
What is invasive?
300
A substance that is formed by a chemical reaction
What is a product?
300
The 5 levels of Ecological Organization
What is organism, species, population, community, ecosystem?
300
bio
What is life?
300
List 3 abiotic factors.
What is: wind, temperature, water, dirt, air, sunlight.. ?
400
Only one species benefits without harming or benefitting the other.
What is commensalism?
400
What two processes work together to cycle oxygen through our ecosystem?
What is (cellular) respiration and photosynthesis?
400
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.
What is Ecosystem?
400
derm
What is skin?
400
An organism in a food chain that eats producers
What is primary consumer?
500
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?
500
What organelle is the powerhouse of every cell?
What is the mitochondria?
500
The removal of trees from forests and jungles
What is deforestation?
500
meter
What is measure?
500
Where all the energy for an ecosystem start
What is the sun?
600
A physical or behavioral trait that helps organisms survive
What is adaptation?
600
One organism benefits and the other is harmed?
What is parasitism? (or parasitic)
600
When the bee gets nectar from a flower and in return the bee pollinates the flower.
What is mutualism?
600
hetero
What is mixed or different?
600
Both products of photosynthesis and the reactants in cellular respiration
What is oxygen and glucose?
700
Anything that restricts the growth, size or survival of a population in an ecosystem
What is limiting factor?
700
Product of photosynthesis
What is glucose?
700
The study of the relationships between organisms and each other, in relation to their environment.
What is ecology?
700
exo
What is outside?
700
A tree that loses it's leaves seasonally
What is deciduous?
800
The gradual process by which an ecosystem changes and develops over time
What is succession?
800
Small openings on the underside of a leaf through which oxygen and carbon dioxide can move (where gas exchange occurs in a plant).
What is stomata?
800
Showing a wide variety of different types of species
What is diverse? (or diversity or biodiversity)
800
synth
What is to combine?
800
When cellular respiration happens
What is all the time?