The study of living organisms.
What is biology? or What is the study of biology?
This group of animals eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
Anything that has mass & volume. It has weight and takes up space.
What is matter?
An animal that eats another animal or species.
What is predation?
The smallest unit of all matter.
What is an atom?
Species that are essential to a food web, break down organisms.
What is a decomposer?
A group of individuals of the same species.
What is a population?
What is energy?
Organisms fight or compete for resources, can occur between or within species.
What is competition?
Describes the acidity of a liquid, most commonly water.
What is the pH scale?
Bottom of the food chain, what they all must start with.
What is a producer?
An interacting system that contains groups of organisms AND their nonliving environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A way to show how energy is moving through an ecosystem.
What is a trophic pyramid?
An organism lives in or on a "host" causing some harm but typically not killing the host.
What is parasitism?
This liquid is described as a universal solvent.
What is water?
Shows energy transfer from one organism to another.
What is a food chain or web?
An organism's role within an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Organisms only store this amount of energy contained within their food & the other energy is lost.
What is the 10% rule?
Both organisms receive benefits due to their interaction.
What is mutualism
To name a few: are made of one or more cells, respond to stimuli from their environment, and maintain homeostasis.
What are the characteristics of life?
The feeding position of an organism within a food chain/web.
What is a trophic level?
All parts of nature are interrelated & each part is affected by all other parts.
What is the central theme of Ecology?
Weight of living material, an abundance or organisms is measured with this.
What is biomass?
1 organism benefits from a relationship while the other is unaffected