Community/Population Ecology
This level of ecological organization includes only members of the same species living in the same area.
What is a population?
This type of succession occurs where no soil exists
What is primary succession?
This type of organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is an autotroph/producer?
This two-part naming system includes the genus and species of an organism.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Archaebacteria are known for living in these types of environments.
What are extreme environments?
This level of ecological organization is the first to include both biotic and abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
Name one common pioneer species
What is a lichen or moss?
This is the name for the first consumer in a food web.
What is a primary consumer?
This is the most general level in the classification hierarchy.
What is domain?
This substance makes up the cell walls of fungi.
What is chitin?
This is the specific role an organism plays in its environment.
What is a niche?
The main difference between primary and secondary succession.
What is the presence of soil?
Only this percentage of energy is passed to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
This Swedish botanist developed the hierarchical classification system still used today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
Animal cells differ from plant cells in this structural way.
What is they do not have a cell wall/chloroplast?
This term refers to the maximum number of individuals an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
A forest fire would lead to this type of succession.
What is secondary succession?
This model shows multiple feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This diagram shows evolutionary relationships and is based on derived characters.
What is a cladogram?
Animals that lack a backbone are called this.
What are invertebrates?
This type of population growth forms an S-curve and occurs when resources become limited.
What is logistic growth?
This is the final, stable stage of succession
What is a climax community?
This process returns carbon to the atmosphere from dead organisms.
What is decomposition?
These are traits that appear in recent parts of a lineage but not in its older members.
What are derived characters?
This type of organism has cell walls made of peptidoglycan.
What is Eubacteria?