Nutrient Cycles
Food Webs & Food Chains
Community Interactions
Succession
Misc. Ecology Vocabulary
100
Organisms that are found in the water, carbon, AND nitrogen cycles.
What are PLANTS?
100
The most accurate representation of community interactions.
What is a FOOD WEB?
100
One organism hunts and eats another.
What is PREDATION?
100
Examples include a forest fire, tornado and hurricane.
What are NATURAL DISTURBANCES?
100
The living influences on organisms within an ecosystem.
What is a BIOTIC FACTOR?
200
The process of water being added to the atmosphere as it is lost from the leaves of plants.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
200
What the arrows in a food web or food chain represent.
What is the TRANSFER OF ENERGY.
200
Tapeworms inside a dog.
What is PARASITISM?
200
The most common form of succession.
What is SECONDARY SUCCESSION?
200
Includes only the living organisms in a defined area.
What is a COMMUNITY?
300
How consumers obtain nitrogen from the environment.
What is BY EATING PLANTS?
300
In a food chain this describes the dietary pattern of a secondary consumer.
What is a CARNIVORE?
300
Two tertiary consumers going after the same secondary consumer.
What is COMPETITION?
300
The organisms first likely to enter into an ecosystem after a disturbance.
What are PIONEER SPECIES?
300
How much the organism eats, where it lives, how many offspring it has, what temperature range it will live in, etc.
What is a NICHE?
400
How carbon is returned to the atmosphere.
What is CELLULAR RESPIRATION and COMBUSTION (the burning of fossil fuels)?
400
Describes the amount of biomass as you move from the producer level to the top consumer level in an ecosystem.
What is INCREASES?
400
Egrets sitting on a rhino to eat the grasshoppers that are kicked up by the walking rhinos.
What is COMMENSALISM?
400
Identify the stages of an ecosystem going through primary succession.
What is going from ROCKS, to SMALL PLANTS/SHRUBS, and finally LARGE TREES (FOREST).
400
Organisms most susceptible to environmental changes due to their narrow niche.
What is a SPECIALIST?
500
The organisms (2) responsible for converting "useless" nitrogen in the atmosphere into a "useable" form.
What are LEGUMES (like soybeans) and BACTERIA?
500
10,000 calories are available at the producer level. How many are available to the secondary consumes?
What is 100 CALORIES?
500
Fish visiting "cleaning stations" hosted by shrimp.
What is MUTUALISM? (The fish get parasites removed and the shrimp eat the parasites for food.)
500
Tend to be small, fast growing, and reproduce in large numbers.
What are PIONEER SPECIES?
500
The order of the levels of ecology beginning with an individual organism.
What is INDIVIDUAL, POPULATION, COMMUNITY, ECOSYSTEM, BIOMES, BIOSPHERE?
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