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 four cycles of matter

What are the water, carbon/oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles

200

An organisms role in an ecosystem

What is a niche?

200

soil

What is abiotic

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.
What is respiration or combustion?
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
The soil, air, and water within an ecosystem
What is abiotic factors?
300
Another word for producer.
What is autotroph?
300

the level of noursihment available in a food chain

What is a trophic level?

300
The process of bacteria changing gaseous nitrogen into ammonia.
What is nitrogen fixation?
400

The ability of any organism to survive when subjected to abiotic or biotic factors

What is tolerance?

400

An example of an organism that get their energy from a abiotic factors

What are heterotrophs?

400

What is being released at each level of the ecological pyramid?

Heat

400
Organisms that eat dead matter. An example would be a decomposer.
What is a detritivore?
400
The cycle most dependent on rocks and geology.
What is the Phosphorous cycle?
500

The six levels of organization in order from smallest to largest are...

What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?

500

At least three Abiotic Factors that support plant growth.

Water, Air, Soil, Sunlight, temperature

500

This happens to the amount of biomass with each trophic level in an ecological pyramid.

What is descreases at each trophic level?

500

The difference between a herbivore and a heterotroph.

One describes and organism that eats only plants and the other describes an organism that consumes other organisms for energy(doesn't make its own food). 

500

Organism most important to carrying out the processes of the nitrogen cycle

What are bacteria/fungi?

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