Ecology Overview
Ecology Overview 2
Feeding Relationships
Trophic Levels
Symbiotic Relationships
100
The definition of a biotic factor and an example.
What is a living element of the environment? Many examples acceptable.
100
The definition of an abiotic factor and an example.
What is a non-living element of an environment? Many examples acceptable.
100
The definition of a producer and an example.
What is an organism that produces its own food? Many acceptable examples.
100
A water lily would be an example of this trophic level.
What is producer?
100
Give one example of a parasitic relationship.
What is many acceptable answers?
200
The formal name for the Earth that ecologist use.
What is the biosphere?
200
The definition of a habitat.
What is the place in which an organism lives?
200
Name at least two terms that could be used to describe a human who eats meat.
What is omnivore, secondary consumer?
200
A lion would be an example of this trophic level.
What is tertiary consumer?
200
The difference between mutualism and commensalism.
What is in mutualism both species benefit and in commensalism one species benefits while the other is unaffected?
300
The definition of a population.
What is a group of organisms of one species that live together and interbreed?
300
Decomposers are considered this.
What are consumers?
300
The term used to refer to the amount of a given species or group of organisms in weight.
What is biomass?
300
The clownfish and the sea anemone are an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is mutualism?
400
The definition of an ecosystem.
What is the the populations in a community and the abiotic factors?
400
The difference between a primary and secondary consumer?
What is primary consumers only consume producers and secondary consumers consume other consumers?
400
True or False: Symbiosis are relationships between members of the same species.
What is false? Symbiosis are between different species.
500
The definition of a community.
What is a group of several interacting populations that depend upon one another?
500
The definition of niche.
What is the location in an environment and the role which the organism plays within that environment?
500
The two minimum trophic levels/food chain relationships needed to maintain an ecosystem.
What are producers and decomposers?
500
If you have 1,000 pounds of primary consumers, the number of producers and secondary consumers that you expect to have.
What is 10,000 and 100?
500
True or false: Decomposers breaking down deceased plant matter is an example of a symbiosis.
What is false? This does not represent a relationship between two living species, but rather a trophic level/food chain relationship.
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