Basic Knowledge
The study of how organisms interact with one another and the environment.
What is ecology?
The guardian of the forest, who speaks for the trees.
What is the Lorax?
The role an organism plays in its ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Organisms that convert sunlight into energy. Usually happens through photosynthesis.
What are producers?
The path of energy transfers from producers to consumers.
What is a food chain?
Interactions between organisms in an area.
What is a biotic factor?
The basic level of organization in ecosystems. Organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
What is a habitat?
Nature's recyclers. Get their energy by breaking down materials from their environment.
What are decomposers?
The first organism to consume the producer in a food chain.
What is the primary producer?
Any part of the non-living environment.
What is an abiotic factor?
A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
What is a population?
A species of lizards that comes in different colors and lives in different parts of trees, so they don't occupy the same niche.
What are anoles?
Specialized consumers that eat the leftovers from other animal's meals.
What are scavengers?
A diagram made up of many food chains.
What is a food web?
Competition between for resources, birds that eat the food out of alligators teeth, fish that attach themselves to the underside of sharks.
All of the living plants and animals in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
The imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth. Also the area that gets the most amount of sunlight.
What is the equator?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
Land-based and water-based food chains are examples of this.
What are global food webs?
Large areas of land that are characterized by their shared climate conditions.
What are biomes?
All of the living and non living parts of an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A population of organisms that invades a habitat it would not naturally occur in. Can cause native species to go extinct.
What is an invasive species?
The base of most food chains.
What are producers?
The consumer that is always shown at the top of the food web. Nothing preys upon it.
What is the top predator?