Parts of an Ecosystem
Symbiosis
Biogeochemical Cycles
Food Webs, Food Chains, and Energy Pyramids
Ecology Vocabulary
100
A single individual in a population.
What is an organism
100
True or False? Symbiosis is a close relationship two or more of the same and different species.
What is false; a close relationship of two or more DIFFERENT species.
100
What the Hydrological Cycle? Explain the processes of the hydrological cycle.
What is the water cycle; Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and Collection.
100
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
What is a food web shows shows complex network of feeding relationships within an ecosystem. Food chain is when there is a sequence that links species by their feeding relationships.
100
Natural Resources that is used more quickly than it can be formed.
What is Nonrenewable Resources
200
Define abiotic and biotic factors.
What is abiotic factors are the nonliving parts of an environment that are essential for life and biotic factors are the living or once living parts of an environment.
200
Explain the difference between commensalism and mutualism
What is commensalism is when only one species benefits without harming or helping the other organism. Mutualism is when both species benefits.
200
Why do plants use the Carbon Cycle?
What is the plants need it for photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
200
Does energy move up from producers to consumers or consumers to producers in an energy pyramid?
What is it moves from consumers to producers in an energy pyramid
200
Biotic and Abiotic Factors found in the same area where organisms live
What is Habitat
300
True or False? A community is made up of the same populations that interact with each other.
What is the statement is false.
300
Leeches and parasites are an example of what?
What is Parasitism
300
Explain Nitrogen Fixation
What is nitrogen fixation is when bacteria is on the roots of plants change nitrogen gas into an ammonium ion then into nitrates.
300
About how much of percentage of energy makes it to the tertiary consumer due to heat or metabolism?
What is less than 10%
300
Interaction of animals and explains how it lives in an ecosystem
What is Niche
400
Why are keystone species so important to the ecosystem.
What is the keystone species maintain diversity in an ecosystem and if something happens to them then it could affect the other populations in an ecosystem.
400
Clown Fish in Sea Anemone is an example of
What is Commensalism
400
How do the plants use the nitrogen cycle?
What is the plants use the nitrates to make organic compounds like proteins and amino acids.
400
In a food web a rat both eats a producer and a primary consumer, does that mean the rat is a primary consumer, secondary consumer, or both.
What is the rat is both a primary and secondary consumer.
400
Process by which part of an organism's preferred habitat range becomes inaccessible
What is Habitat Fragmentation
500
List all of the levels of Biological Organization. Explain two of the levels listed.
What is Organism, Population, Community, and then the Ecosystem. (Student answer varies)
500
Is predation an example of symbiosis
What is a predation is not an example of symbiosis
500
What is the one thing in common that plants and animals have in the carbon cycle?
What is cellular respiration
500
List all 4 trophic levels in an ecological pyramid. Describe 2 of the 4 trophic levels.
What is 1st Trophic level- Producers 2nd Trophic level- Primary Consumer 3rd Trophic level- Secondary Consumer 4th Trophic level- Tertiary Consumer ( Student answer will vary)
500
Species whose being protected under the Endangered Species Act leads to the preservation of its habitat and all of the other organisms in its community. (E.g. Manatee)
What is Umbrella Species
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