Ecology I
These living things break down organic matter such as bacteria and fungi are called these.
What are decomposers?
Most water molecules of water enter the atmosphere from bodies of water through this process
What is evaporation
All strategies and adaptations a species uses for survival or, an organisms role in the community
What is a niche?
What is a food web?
This term refers to changes in an environment over time
What is succession?
The process by which some living things make food from the sun's energy
What is photosynthesis?
An organism that lives on or in another organism and hurts it.
What is parasitism
This type of succession takes place on land where there are no living organisms, like after a volcanic eruption.
What is primary succession?
The zone of the ocean in which organisms must be adapted to extreme changes in temperature, waves and tides
What is the intertidal zone?
a group of organisms of the same species that live in an environment
What is a population?
Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy
What are heterotrophs?
non living parts of an environment
What are abiotic factors?
A succession pattern that takes place gradually after an existing community is destroyed by fire.
What is secondary succession?
Layers of permanent frozen soil
What is tundra
where an organism lives -includes both biotic and abiotic factors
what is habitat
Organisms that eat both plants and meat
What are omnivores?
In this relationship, both species benefit
What is mutualism?
The first species to live in an area recovering from a succession.
What are pioneer species
This ecosystem characteristically has birch, spruce and ash
What is the forest?
any relationship where two species live closely together
what is symbiosis
Organisms that only eat plants
What is a herbivore?
In this case, one organism benefits, the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
An organism that cleans up materials such as decaying animals and waste are referred to as these
What are scavengers?
Covers the largest part of the biosphere
What is ocean
The limits of an abiotic factor (ex. temp) that an organism is able to survive.
What is the range of tolerance?