Terms for Ecosystems
Food Chains
Interactions Among Species
Cycles
Potpourri
100

A non-living factor that plays a role in an organism's environment; non-living environmental factors. e.g. A forest fire. e.g. Water

What is an abiotic factor?

100
An animal that feeds on flesh. e.g. A shark.
What is a carnivore?
100
A symbiotic relationship in which each of the organisms benefits. e.g. sea anemone and clown fish
What is mutualism?
100

This cycle includes cellular respiration and photosynthesis

What is the carbon cycle?

100

A type of food pyramid that is based on the numbers of organisms at each trophic level.

What is a pyramid of numbers?

200

Photosynthesis and Cellular respiration are most closely linked to this biogeochemical cycle

What is the carbon cycle?

200
An animal that feeds on plants.
What is a herbivore?
200
An association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm. e.g. Vorticellids are often found attached to the body of the shark.
What is commensalism?
200

The term for water evaporating from the surface of leaves

What is transpiration?

200

This term describes an organism that feeds on dead and decaying matter, returning nutrients to the soil

What is a decomposer/detritovore?

300

This sphere of the contains all living organisms found on Earth

What is the biosphere?

300
A biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked).
What is predation?
300
A non-mutual symbiotic relationship between species, where one species benefits at the expense of the other, the host. e.g. mosquitoes
What is parasitism?
300

The burning of these contributes excess carbon to the atmosphere

What are fossil fuels?

300
This is the name given to kill plants which are considered pests

What is a herbicide?

400
This word is used to describe a community of abiotic and biotic components which work together in such a way that the relationships endure and support and each other 

What is a sustainable ecosystem?

400

This name is used to describe the different feeding levels in a food chain or food web


What is a trophic level?

400

This is the total number of individuals which can be supported by an ecosystem

What is carrying capacity?


400

This can occur when excess nitrogen makes its way to body water

What is an algae bloom?

400

The pesticide ddt is often found in this part of the beluga whale.

What is blubber?

500

This term is used to describe the role an organism plays within its ecosystem, in other words, an organisms job

What is a niche?

500

Pesticides and other chemicals that cannot be digested, may experience this effect as they move up a food chain

What is a bioaccumulation/bioamplification?

500

Species which are not native to an area, yet thrive and live there are known as.

What is an invasive species?

500

This is the term for a lake becoming shallow over time due to repeated algae blooms

What is eutrophication?

500

This process allows for carbon dioxide to transfer to the atmosphere from living organisms.

What is cellular respiration?

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