Ecology Basics
Biotic and Abiotic
Energy in Ecosystems
Food Chains and Food Webs
Cycling of Matter
100
The study of interactions among living and nonliving organisms.
What is Ecology?
100
Living factors within an environment
What is biotic factors?
100
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
100
An organism that eats only producers.
What is an herbivore?
100
The main reservoir in the water cycle.
What is the ocean?
200

Where do plants AND animals get their energy?

plants: water and sun

animals: food web/chain

200

Name 2 things that are biotic factors in an ecosystem.

anything alive

200
A plant is an example of this.
What is a producer?
200
Organisms that can eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
200

How carbon is released into the atmosphere.

Through humans and animals breathing and releasing Carbon Dioxide for the plants

300
A group of different species that lives together in one area, such as groups of alligators, turtles, birds, fish and plants that live together in the Florida Everglades.
What is Community?
300

Give 2 examples of abiotic factor (things that are not living)

sunlight, water, temperature, etc

300
Another word for producer.
What is autotroph?
300

Where do plants get their energy?

the sun and water

300

Explain photosynthesis

The process in which plants turn their water and sunlight into energy and produce glucose

400
The most regionalized level of organization
What is a Biome?
400

An example where you might see a lot of biotic factors (where would you see a lot of animal/ people/ plant life)

rainforest, ocean, towns, cities

400
The following equation for this process: 6H20 + 6CO2-->C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is photoynthesis?
400

What do decomposers do?

They break down dead material and repurpose it into the ecosystem.

400

Explain the water cycle in order (starting at evaporation)

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, run off and ground water.

500

Name 5 organisms

answers will vary

500

What are humans considered in the ecosystem?]

Biotic or Abiotic?

biotic

500
The process by which organisms form carbohydrates by using chemicals, rather than light, as their energy source.
What is chemosynthesis?
500

Name the different trophic levels and what animals/plants are in it. (hint: we start with the sun)

Sun

Producers (autotrophs) 

Herbivores

Omnivores

Carnivores

Decomposers


500

What are the 4 types of biocgeohemical cycles

Water cycle

Carbon cycle

Nitrogen cycle

Phosphorus cycle

M
e
n
u