The Environment
Levels of Organization
Characteristics of Populations
Symbiotic Relationship
Matter & Energy
100
The study of the interactions among organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
100
This is considered to be one individual from a population.
What is Organism?
100
The number of individuals in a population that occupy a definite area.
What is Population Density?
100
Any close interaction between two or more different species.
What is Sybmiosis?
100
A simple way of showing how energy, in the form of food, passes from one organism to another.
What is Food Chain?
200
These are the non-living parts of the environment such as temperature, moisture, light, and soil.
What is Abiotic Factor
200
All the members of one species that live together.
What is Populations?
200
How the organisms are arranged in a given area.
What is Population Spacing?
200
The role, or job, of an organism in the ecosystem.
What is Niche?
200
A series of overlapping food chains that exist in an ecosystem.
What is Food Web?
300
These are called the living or once living organisms in the environment.
What is Biotic Factor?
300
Groups of populations that interact with each other in a given area.
What is Communities?
300
This is any biotic or abiotic factor that has an effect on the number of individuals in a population.
What is Limiting Factor?
300
The place where an organism lives.
What is Habitat?
300
Most of the energy in the biosphere comes from this.
What is the Sun?
400
This percent of the Earth's surface water is found in the oceans.
What is 95 percent?
400
This is made up of a biotic community and the abiotic factors that effect it.
What is Ecosystems?
400
The largest number of individuals of a species that an environment can support.
What is Carrying Capacity?
400
A form of symbiosis that benefits one organism without affecting the other organism.
What is Commensalism?
400
This illustrates that available energy decreases at each successive feeding step.
What is Energy Pyramid?
500
This determines which plants and animals can live in a region.
What is temperature?
500
Scientists divide Earth into these sections.
What is Biomes?
500
The maximum rate at which a population increases when plenty of food and water are available, the weather is ideal, and no diseases or enemies exist.
What is Biotic Potential?
500
A relationship where two different species of organisms cooperate and both benefit.
What is Mutualism?
500
The process of evaporation, condensation, and precipation.
What is the Water cycle?
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