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The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
What is Ecology?
2 or more populations living together in the same area at the same time.
What is a Community?
A large region of Earth with similar climate, plants, and animals.
What is a Biome?
Non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What are Abiotic Factors?
All life on planet Earth.
What is the Biosphere?
All members of one species living in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
Living factors in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
Any organism that eats another organism for its energy needs.
What is a consumer?
Examples include: algae, plankton, trees, and plants.
What are producers?
True or False: A heterotroph is any organism that gets its energy from other organisms.
What is True?
These are the PRODUCTS of photosynthesis.
What are Oxygen, and Glucose?
These organisms extract their energy needs from the remains of decaying organisms.
What are decomposers?
A fox killing and eating a chipmunk is an example of what kind of behavior?
In a food chain/web, approximately ____% of available energy reaches the next trophic level.
What is 10%
Herbivores (grazers) are also known as _______ consumers.
What are Primary Consumers?
List any two resources that organisms compete for.
What are: space (territory), food, water, mates?
Any organism that consumes either plant or animal material
What is an omnivore?
This is the unique role (job) and location of an organism in an ecosystem.
What is a Niche?
The organism in a food web that has no known predator
What is an Apex Predator?
If a fox were to kill and eat a rabbit- this makes the fox a _______ consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
Arrows in a food chain or food web mean:
What is "where the energy flows to"?
Temperature, humidity, precipitation are examples of:
There are 121 adult Bald Eagles living in Connecticut. This represents:
What is a Population?
What is a Scavenger?
These are 2 characteristics of the Eastern Deciduous Forest?
What are: 4 distinct seasons, and trees that lose their leaves in the autumn?