Levels of Ecological Organization
What is the term for a single living thing?
Organism
What relationship describes one organism benefiting from an interaction and the other being harmed?
Parasitism
What do the arrows in a food web show?
The flow of energy
What word means a wide variety of things?
Diversity
What specialized organ allows fish to extract oxygen from the water around them?
Gills
What term describes all living AND non-living things in a particular region?
Ecosystem
What word describes two organisms living together in some way?
Symbiosis
What will happen to the population of rabbits in a habitat if their food source dies suddenly?
Their population will decrease
Genetic Diversity
Who was the physicist to first describe gravity?
Isaac Newton
All the deer in the forests surrounding harrisburg qualify as a...
population
A bird builds its nest in a tree, what example of symbiosis is this?
Commensalism
If spiders start dying suddenly, what will happen to the number of mosquitos in an area?
Their population will increase
Which continent on earth has the lowest level of biodiveristy?
Antactica
Who was the scientist that originally wrote the equation E = mc2?
Albert Einstein
What broad regional term is defined by the amount of rainfall and average yearly temperature?
A biome
A cow eats grass for nutrition and energy, what form of interaction between living things is this?
Predation
What is the name of the nutrient cycle including the steps: transpiration, infiltration, and condensation?
The water cycle
What special group of people in Pennsylvania were affected by low genetic diversity in their population
The Amish
What class of animals were the first to evolve the ability to fly in earth's history?
Insects
A food web describes what level of ecological organization?
A community
Ants farm a fungus to feed their colony and the fungus has a safe place to live protected by ants, what form of symbiosis is this?
Mutualism
What do we call the ecological niche of organisms that break down dead matter?
Decomposers
What kind of diversity is threatened when a rainforest is bulldozed to make way for a farm?
Species Diveristy
What is the effect in physics that states that waves appear to be moving faster as they approach the observer and slower as they move away from the observer?
The Doppler Effect