Relationships in Ecosystem
What is an individual living thing?
Organism
Define limiting factors.
They are abiotic and biotic things in an ecosystem that prevent a population from growing any larger.
What are the final consumers in the many food webs?
Carnivores
What shows more biodiversity that organisms can rely on more than one type of food, increasing stability and chance of survival?
Food web
What is the natural process that moves and recycles the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, soil, rocks, and living organism?
What is the place where an organism lives and finds resources ?
Habitat
Define herbivore.
A consumer that eats plants or other producers.
What is the model that shows how energy and matter move from organism to another organism?
Food chain
What shows the amount of energy contained within each level of an ecosystem?
Energy Pyramid
What is it called when both species benefit from the relationship?
Mutualism
How do scientists study life at different level?
Ecological organization
Define niche.
The role, or way of life of a species within its environment.
What is an organism that breaks down dead organisms and watses?
Decomposers
What are Biosphere, biome, ecosystems, community, population, organism?
Levels of Ecological organization
What is it called when one benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed?
Commensalism
What is an organism of the same species living in the same area at the same time?
Population
Define carrying capacity.
Is the maximum number of a species that can be sustained by a given ecosystem.
How does energy enter most ecosystems and what is transfered?
The sun and 10 %
If an ecosystem has more organism living in it, what can you say about it's stability?
It has more biodiversity.
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.
What is a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another and produce fertile offspring?
Species
Cover large areas and are characterized by their climate and the types of plants and animals that are found there
In a food pyramid, what is an organism's feeding position?
Trophic level
In an ecosystem, what is NEVER recycled?
Energy
What is the process by which an ecosystem changes over time?
Ecological succession