Ecology
The study of interactions of living things and the environment.
What is ecology?
A hawk hunting a mouse?
What is a predator?
A living breathing thing
What is an Organism?
Rattlesnake skin blending in to environment.
What is camouflage
These are the living things in an ecosystem.
What is Biotic Factors?
These organisms eat only plants
What is a herbivore?
Also known as survival of the fittest
What is natural selection?
Water, air and soil.
What is an Abiotic Factor?
What is the percentage of energy lost as you go up the energy pyramid
What is 90 percent?
This organism eats only herbivores (type of consumer).
What is a secondary consumer?
Many species living together in a specific area
What is a Community?
How species change overtime to better survive in their environment. Examples: migration, hibernation, etc
Breaks down dead and decaying plants and animals.
What is decomposer?
The higher organisms located on this receive less energy.
What is an Energy Pyramid?
The arrow shows this in a food web
What is the Flow of Energy?
Many different species and all of the abiotic factors in a specific area
What is an Ecosystem?
Tool we use to identify organisms
What is a dichotomous key?
Organisms that obtain energy from feeding on other organisms.
What is a consumer?
System made up of multiple relationships and food chains
What is the Food Web?
This organism is the third level consumer of the energy pyramid
What is a tertiary consumer?
Different ecoregions of the planet earth with specific climate and animals
What is a Biome?
Human interference in breeding organisms
What is Selective Breeding?