Ecology things
Ecologists call this ecological layering in a biome.
What is vertical zonation?
Raccoons, bears, opossums, and foxes are this type of eater.
What is omnivore?
Term given to the total number of organisms in a given area.
What is population?
This organism consumes the producers.
What is a consumer?
An organism that can make its own food
What is a producer?
Limited area smaller than a biome in which living and nonliving things interact.
What is an ecosystem?
In this, one organism is injured while the other is unaffected.
What is amensalism?
This is what food chains are connected to.
What is food web?
What is commensalism?
The extreme changes associated with seasons is due to this effect.
What is latitude?
This is used to demonstrate the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is the ecological pyramid?
This excludes any place on Earth where things can't live, such as the interior of the earth or the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
What is the biosphere?
In this, an organism depends on a much larger animal for food.
What is parasitism?
The nonliving prospects of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factors?
The number of species in an area.
Where they share a habitat and don't directly affect each other.
What is neutralism?
The average weather of an area over an extended period of time.
What is climate?
These live on the ocean floor.
What are benthic organisms?
What is parasitism?
These organisms break down nutrients.
What are decomposers?
These are a direct result of the Earth's tilt.
A line beyond which there is insufficient rainfall and temperatures are low.
What is timberline?
Producers include plants and this group.
What is algae?
This illustrates a food chain.
What is an ecological pyramid?
This gives the biosphere flexibility to deal with changes in the environment.
What is genetic variety?