Relationships
Food Web
Miscellaneous
Ecology
Cycles
100
The close relationship that exists when two or more species live together and benefit from each other
What is mutualism
100

The ultimate source of energy for an ecosystem

What is the sun

100

The entire portion of Earth which is alive/can support life

What is the biosphere?

100

When a certain factor such as temperature is too extreme for a population to survive in at all, the factor is said to be in this zone

What is the zone of intolerance

100

Transpiration is the ___________of water from the inside of leaves and plants into the atmosphere

What is evaporation

200
Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits by harming another organism (tapeworms, lice, etc)
What is parasitism
200

A consumer which only eats plants

What is an herbivore

200
Nonliving factors in an organism’s environment
What is abiotic
200

The many living organisms occupying the same space, such as all the animals, plants, fungi, and microbes that live in one forest, are called this

What is a (biological) community

200

These cellular processes are critical to the carbon and oxygen cycle

What are photosynthesis and respiration

300
The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits from a close interaction and the other organism is unaffected
What is commensalism
300

Organisms that make their own food have these two names

What are autotrophs and producers

300
A substance an organism needs in order to survive, such as water or sugar

What is a nutrient?

300
Living factors in an organism’s environment
What is biotic factors
300

This biogeochemical cycle involves the transformation of an unusable atmospheric form of a nutrient into a usable form

What is the nitrogen cycle

400

This kind of consumer eats producers

What is primary consumer

400

Organisms that eat plants or other animals can be called these two names

What are heterotrophs or consumers

400

When the number of consumers in a higher level of the food pyramid grows, this can happen to the level below

What is a decrease in population

400
Organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location at the same time make up a
What is population
400

Phosphorus is often freed from long-term "storage" and made available for autotrophs when this happens

What is erosion/weathering

500
Any organism that causes dead organisms to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil
What is a decomposer
500

Energy is lost in this way as you move up the pyramid/across the food chain

What is heat

500

This happens to a population's size when a certain factor is within the zone of physiological stress

What is the population shrinking in size as some individuals die off

500
Place the following in order from the most energy obtained to the least energy obtained primary consumer, secondary consumer, producer, tertiary consumer
What is producer, primary consumer , secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
500

Carbon and oxygen enter a long-term cycle when this happens

What is getting trapped in calcium carbonate on the ocean floor?

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