Ecology
Place where an organism lives and makes its home
What is habitat
An individual living thing
What is an organism
Organisms that make their own food
What are autotrophs
Bees and flowering plants have this type of relationship.
What is Mutualism
Pyramid level that contains the most energy
What is 1st trophic level or producers
An organism's job or role in their ecosystem
What is a niche
Group of the same species
What is a population
Organism that eats only plants
What is a primary consumer or herbivore
Humans and lice have this type of relationship
What is parasitism
Network of interconnected food chains
What is a food web
Portion of the earth that supports life
What is the Biosphere
All of the communities in an area, combined with abiotic factors
What is an ecosystem
Helps recycle nutrients in the ecosystem; fungi and bacteria are examples
What are decomposers
Fish sometimes brush up against a shark because it's outside is sand paper like. When they brush up against the shark, their scales are exfoliated. This type of relationship does not harm the shark.
What is commensalism
The amount of energy that is transferred to the next trophic level, and the amount lost as heat
What is 10% energy is transferred to the next level, 90% is lost as heat
The biological levels of organization starting with organism
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
Three possible abiotic factors
What is water, soil, rocks, temperature, oxygen
The number of individuals within a particular unit of space
What is population density
5 of the 6 major land biomes
What are tundra, boreal forest, deciduous forest, desert, rain forest, grasslands
Organism that is needed to convert nitrogen into a usable form
What is bacteria
Type of succession that is apparent when grass is growing up through the cracks in a sidewalk
What is secondary succession
This can cause a population to stop growing or decrease in size; examples are climate, food, water, space
What is a limiting factor
2 ways that a population can increase in size
What is the birth rate is greater than death rate and immigration
General term for the relationships between different organisms that live closely together
What is symbiosis or symbiotic relationships
3 ways in which carbon is recycled in the environment
What is photosynthesis, cellular respiration, decomposition, pollution