Ecology Terms
Ecology Terms
Ecology Terms
Biogeochemical Cycles
Energy Flow
100
The study of organisms and the interactions between their living and nonliving environment.
What is ecology?
100
The place an organisms lives; a squirrel lives in a hole in a tree.
What is a habitat?
100
Organisms that produce their own energy using the sun.
What are autotrophs or producers?
100
This cycle intricately links animals and plants together through respiration and photosynthesis.
What is the carbon cycle?
100
As energy moves up a trophic level in a food web or chain, this much energy is lost.
What is 90%
200
The relationships that occur between living things.
What are interactions?
200
The role of an organism in an ecosystem; a fungus decomposes dead organisms.
What is a niche?
200
This includes all living populations in an area, but not abiotic factors
What is a community?
200
This is the only cycle that does not have an atmospheric component.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
200
These show that animals can eat from more than one trophic level.
What are food webs?
300
A group of zebras living around a water hole in Africa
What is a population?
300
A butterfly pollinating a flower is an example of this interaction.
What is mutualism?
300
An interaction in which one organism benefits and when one is harmed.
What is predation?
300
Nonpoint source pollution from fertilizers causes an unnatural balance in these two cycles.
What are the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles?
300
Something that only eats other consumers (no matter what level) is this type of eater.
What is a carnivore?
400
Sunight, temperature, pH, soil quality.
What are abiotic factors?
400
Predators, prey, and disease are examples of this:
What are biotic factors?
400
An area that has many different living things in an area has a great amount of this.
What is biodiversity?
400
This is the largest carbon sink.
What is the ocean?
400
Without these, there would be no stored chemical energy on earth?
What are primary producers?
500
A tropical rainforest that includes the animals, plants, as well as abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
500
This occurs when an area is developed.
What is habitat loss?
500
Draw and label the sustainability diagram.
Draw it!
500
Bacteria perform this process that captures atmospheric nitrogen, converting it to solid form.
What is nitrogen fixation?
500
Explain how a food chain or food web can be affected by the loss of on member of the chain.
Describe an example!
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