Levels of Ecological Organization
Habitat or Niche
Characteristics of an Organism
Experiments
Feeding/Symbiotic Relationships
100
Any unicellular or multicellular form that displays all the characteristics of life
What is an organism?
100
Country where it lives
What is an example of a habitat
100
Either unicellular or multicellular
What is made up of cells?
100
Experiment in which only 1 factor can be changed at a time
What is a controlled experiment?
100
Both species benefit
What is mutualism?
200
All life supporting portions of Earth.
What is the biosphere?
200
Temperature it experiences
What is an example of habitat?
200
Begins as one cell and grows larger.
What is grows and develops?
200
Variable that is dependent on the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
200
One species benefits and the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
300
several interacting populations that inhabit a common environment and are interdependent
What is a community?
300
plant species it eats
What is an example of a niche?
300
Has certain parts with certain functions
What is displaying organization?
300
The group exposed to the factor being tested
What is the experimental group?
300
One species benefits and the other is neither harmed, nor helped
What is commensalism?
400
a group of organisms of one species living in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
400
Finding shelter under a rock
What is an example of habitat?
400
Something in the organisms environment causes it to react
What is eliciting a response?
400
The variable that the experimenter has control over and can change
What is the independent variable?
400
All autotrophs
What are producers?
500
Populations in a community and the abiotic factors with which they interact
What is an ecosystem?
500
digging burrows for the entire colony
What is an example of a niche?
500
Returning to its normal state or maintaining balance.
What is maintaining homeostasis?
500
The experimental group used for comparison
What is the control group?
500
All heterotrophs
What are consumers?