Community Interactions
Relationship where one organism is harmed when both are trying to access same resource.
What is competition?
This process makes food from light energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the process by which ecosystems change and develop over time.
What is succession?
These are the non living component of an ecosystem. For example soil and rocks
The three types of Pyramids.
What are the energy, number, and biomass pyramids?
What is a niche?
This category of organisms capture energy and turn it into food.
What are autotrophs? (or producers)
What is primary succession?
This is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment?
What is ecology?
Represents the total mass of living organic matter at each trophic level.
What is biomass pyramid?
Competition between DIFFERENT types of species.
What is interspecific competition?
This diagram shows energy flow in a one-way path through an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
Would occur after a large fire. Some soil is left behind.
What is secondary succession?
This level of ecological organization includes all the ecosystems on earth.
What is the biosphere?
This is the fate of the 90% of energy not passed to the next trophic level.
What is lost as heat (or used in life processes)?
Relationship where one organism captures and feeds on another organism.
What are predator-prey relationships?
This category of organisms need to eat in order to get energy.
What are heterotrophs (or consumers)
Small, fast growing, and fast-reproducing organisms that are the first to appear.
What is pioneer species?
A group of animals that live in the same area and can interbreed is called a(n) _____.
What is a species (or population)
Rate at which organic matter is created by producers.
What is primary productivity?
The three types of symbiotic relationships and what they are.
What is Parasitism (+,-) commensalism (+,0) and mutualism (+,+)
This process makes food from chemicals. Occurs in some bacteria.
What is chemosynthesis
Occurs when there are frequent disturbances affect ecosystems.
What is a subclimax community?
A large area that has a particular climate and distinct plants and animals is called a __.
What is a biome?
If a plant has 1000 units of energy, the next level will receive this amount of energy.
What is 100 units?