The Biosphere
Food Webs & Chains
Niche
Ecological Succession
Limiting Factors
100
This is a group of organisms that are capable of interbreeding.
What is a species?
100
Plants would be considered as this.
What is a producer/ autotroph?
100
These organisms only eat plants.
What is a herbivore?
100
This is the name for the first species of organisms to live in an area after a disturbance.
What is a pioneer species?
100
In Brooklyn, there are 27,532 people per square mile. This measure is known as...
What is population density?
200
This is all the living and non-living things in the environment.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
200
These organisms only eat meat.
What are carnivores?
200
This is the name for organisms that form a stable community that will remain in an ecosystem until a disturbance.
What is a climax community?
200
Predation, disease, parasitism, and competition for resources are examples of this type of limiting factors.
What are density-dependent limiting factors?
300
A group of deer living in Central Park would be known as this.
What is a population?
300
This gives more information than a food chain because it shows all of the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
These organisms eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
300
These types of species are the first to move into an area after a forest fire.
What are grasses, lichens, etc?
300
This is the term for the maximum number of organisms that can live in an ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
400
Blue Jays, oak trees, turtles, and grass are part of this in Prospect Park.
What is the community?
400
The arrows in a food web or chain show the movement of this through an ecosystem.
What is energy?
400
The primary source of energy for all living things.
What is the sun?
400
This is the amount of time after a disturbance that life will return to an ecosystem.
What is immediately?
400
An example of a density independent limiting factor.
What is natural disaster, extreme weather, human interference?
500
Sharks, dolphins, and fish live in this part of the biosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
500
This type of organism is able to feed on all other living things in their ecosystem.
What is a decomposer?
500
In an energy pyramid, where do the organisms on the very bottom get their energy from?
What is the sun?
500
This is an example of a species that may be part of a forest climax community.
What is an oak tree, spruce tree, etc?
500
These have the greatest control over the type of living things that can be found in an area.
What are climate conditions?
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