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Ecology
Cycles/Bios
Competition/Predation
Relationships
Factors
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____ is the study of way organisms interact with each other and the nonliving surroundings
What is Ecology
100
What are the 3 biggest cycles on Earth?
Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus
100
Give on example of competition
The owl and the snake competing with each other for the rat
100
What are the 3 types of relationships?
Prey-predator, Symbiosis, Competition
100
___, ___ and ___ are 3 types of factors
Abiotic, biotic and limiting
200
True or False All organisms depend on other organisms
True
200
Major ecosystem that occur over wide areas of land are called
biomes
200
How do competition and predation compare?
They both have to do with organisms getting resorces
200
Name the 3 types Symbiosis of relationships
Commensalism, Parasitism, Mutualism
200
A shortage of a factor that can restrict the success of an organisms is a ___
What is a limiting factor
300
Does ecology deal with the way organisms have adapted?
Yes
300
Generally hot and dry biomes
desert
300
How is competition different from predation?
Competition is when 2 organisms fight for a resource and predation is one organism hunting another
300
A dog providing nutrients and shelter for the tapeworm living in it intestines is an example of
parasitism
300
Is a tree's shade an abiotic or biotic factor?
Abiotic
400
What is a niche
the role of an organism in the environment
400
What biome rains alot, found alot in South America and has many species?
Tropical rain forest
400
Is a tiger hunting an antelope competition?
No, predation
400
An ant keeps predators away from the acacia tree. The acacia provides shelter and food for the ant. This is an example of
mutualism
400
Is the mouse population a factor to owls?
Yes its an biotic because the more mice then the owls have more food and can grow
500
Do living things require a constant flow of energy?
Yes
500
When an organism dies, the nitrogen in its body
is released back into the nitrogen cycle by the action of decomposers
500
If a jaguar goes to a drinking hole to a drink and is attacked by a tiger, is this competiton or predation
Competition because the tiger attacks the jaguar over water and competing for it
500
When a pilot fish follows a shark and eats the left-overs and the shark in unharmed in a ___ relationship
Commensalism
500
How do abiotic and biotic differ
Abiotic factors are nonliving things the influence an organism Biotic factors are living things the influence another organism