General ecology
The four basic needs for all living organisms.
What is food, shelter/habitat, air, water?
The term that is used to describe two different species that live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
What is Symbiosis?
In an energy pyramid, this organism only eats producers.
What is primary consumer?
Smallest component of an ecosystem of the following (Ecosystem, Organism, Community, Population)
What is an Individual?
Arrows in a food chain show that this is being transferred.
What is energy?
This term is used to describe living (or once living) parts of ecosystems.
What is biotic?
This term describes the type of symbiosis in which one is benefiting and one doesn't care.
What is commensalism?
The term used to describe organisms that eat the food made by producers.
What is a consumer?
Soil, light, precipitation, depth and salinity are all forms of these.
What are abiotic factors?
Give an example of a food chain with at least 4 organisms involved.
Answers may vary.
Example: Grass----->caterpillar --------->mouse
----->snake------>hawk
This term is used to describe the process of a certain species changing in order to adjust to it's surroundings.
What is adaptation?
Define predator.
What is an organism that naturally hunts prey.
Define producer.
What is an organism that creates its own food?
Characterized by mild climate and seasonal changes. Rain is plentiful and there are an abundance of deciduous trees and wildlife such as deer, bear and raccoons.
What is a forest ecosystem.
A system of interconnected and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
Define Niche
What is the role played by an organism in its environment such as being a consumer or a producer.
In this symbiotic relationship between bees and flowers, bees get pollen to create honey and the flowers get help in reproducing.
What is mutualism?
The term used to describe an organism that breaks down the cells of dead or waste materials and absorb their nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
An ecosystem characterized by an abundance of migratory birds and shellfish. It is a unique region where freshwater and marine water ecosystems meet.
What is a costal ecosystem?
You can tell an organism is a producer on a food web because _______________________________.
What is there are no arrows drawn to the producers?
What is the term used to describe the study of Ecosystems?
What is Ecology?
Describe the two different participants in parasitism.
What is the parasite and the host?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. The ducks are also known as the (producer, primary consumer, or secondary consumer).
What is the secondary consumer?
The range of conditions (biotic or abiotic) in which an organism can survive. Example the tree line – trees cannot live past a certain altitude due to cold temperatures and not enough water.
In an energy pyramid, the producers make 6,000 calories of energy. How much energy would a tertiary consumer get?
What is 6 calories?