Lesson 1-4 Vocab
What is an ecologist?
The location in an environment where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
A simple model of energy flow within a food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
The habitat type that was the most suitable to the blackworms.
What is gravel?
Ms. Meyer's favorite color.
What is purple?
A marked off square or rectangular plot of land to determine where to collect samples.
What is a quadrat?
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same habitat.
What is population?
Organisms that eat dead organisms and wastes from other living organisms.
What is a decomposer?
What happens to an ecosystem if the producers become extinct.
"Least" harmful method of Zebra Mussel control.
What is biological?
Components that are the living organisms in an environment.
What is Biotic?
Any fact that can be consumed or used by an organism.
What is a resource?
A disturbance that effects and ecosystem.
What is a disruption?
The processes that plants do.
What is photosynthesis AND cellular respiration?
What is a decomposer?
Components including all the physical, non-living parts of the environment, such as water, temperature, and sunlight.
What is abiotic?
When plants use energy from the sun to convert some matter - carbon dioxide and water - into other kinds of matter - sugars and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
Something that limits the solution to a problem.
What is a constraint?
The amount of energy that is transferred up to each level of the food web.
What is 10%?
The remaining amount of energy (90%) is released as what kind of energy in the food web if it isn't transferred to the next organism in the food web.
What is heat energy (thermal energy)?
A specific path or area, often marked with a rope or measuring tape?
What is a Transect?
The variety of life at every level, from genes to species to ecosystems.
What is biodiversity?
A series of chemical reactions in plants and animals that breaks down sugars and releases energy.
What is cellular respiration?
The relationship type where BOTH species benefit.
What is mutualism?
Ms. Meyer's Cat's name/
What is Greta Jean?