Ecology Basics
Interactions
Trophic Levels
Nutrient Cycles
Miscellaneous
100
The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology
100
A living thing
What is an organism
100
Ultimate source of energy for lift
What is the sun
100
Formation of clouds
What is condensation
100
Water returning to Earth
What is precipitation
200
The portion of Earth that supports living things.
What is the Biosphere
200
Members of the same species living in the same area at the same time
What is a population
200
Get energy directly from the sun
What is a producer or autotroph
200
Process by which plants take in carbon dioxide and convert it to sugar
What is photosynthesis
200
Eat plants and animals
What are omnivores
300
Nonliving factors that impact living organisms in the area
What is an abiotic factor
300
Several different populations living in the same area at the same time
What is a community
300
Get energy from eating other organisms
What is a consumer or heterotroph
300
Released by fossil fuels when burned
What is carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide
300
Water evaporating from plants
What is transpiration
400
Living organisms that affect other living organisms
What is a biotic factor
400
Populations in communities along with abiotic factors
What is an ecosystem
400
A consumer that eats dead animals it did not kill
What is a scavenger or detrivore
400
Fertilize plants as they make proteins
What are nitrates
400
Break down dead and decaying plans and animals
What are decomposers
500
The ecological levels of organization
What is Organism -> Population -> Community -> Ecosystem
500
Coral, sea anemones, and fish living in the same area
What is a community
500
A diagram that shows feeding connections in an ecological community
What is a food web
500
Fixed by bacteria in the soil
What is atmospheric nitrogen
500
What dead plants and animals become when they become buried
What are fossil fuels
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