Levels of Organization
The scientific study of organisms and their environment is called ___.
Ecology
Living factors in organisms environment are called ___.
What is biotic.
An area where an organism lives is called its ___
What is habitat
The close relationship between two or more organisms living together is called ___.
What is symbiosis.
The name for an organism that collects energy from the sun and makes their own food is called ___.
What is an autotroph.
Which level of contains multiple organisms of the same species?
Populations
Non-living factors in an organisms environment are called ___.
What is abiotic factors.
Name two reasons for habit loss
vary; deforestation, pollution, natural disasters, etc.
The relationship between 2 or more organisms living together and benefitting from each other is called ___.
What is mutualism.
A model representing interconnected food chains and energy pathways is called ___.
What is a food web.
What is the highest level, or largest level of organization in Ecology?
What is the biosphere
The role a species has in its environment is called
niche
The act of one organism pursuing and eating another organism is called ___.
What is predation.
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed is called ___.
What is commensalism.
Each step in a food chain or food web is called ___.
What is trophic level.
What is the lowest level of organization in Ecology?
What is an organism.
There cannot be a duplicate of this in an ecosystem due to competition
What is a niche
This occurs when more then one organism use a resource at the same time.
What is competition.
When one organism benefits at the expense of another organism it is called ___.
What is parasitism.
Where are autotrophs found on a food web?
The bottom, they start it off.
List the levels of organization in order from smallest to largest.
What is organism, population, biological community, ecosystem, biosphere.
Sunlight, temperature, rainfall and soil type are examples of these factors.
What is abiotic factors
Trees are the habitat for the ___of organisms that live there.
What is community.
A tree frog in a tree is an example of which relationship?
commensalism
Name 4 types of heterotrophs.
What are herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers or scavengers.