Intro to Ecology
Cycles
Vocabulary
Food Chains & Webs
Random
100
This is the study of organisms and how they interact with each other and their environment
Ecology
100
The term for when liquid water falls from the sky due to gravity. Examples include rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
Precipitation
100
An organism, such as a cow, eats only plants and is this type of consumer
Herbivore
100
In the food chain below, it is the organism that is a carnivore
Fox
100
Energy is lost as this as it passes through a food chain or food web
Heat
200
Provide 2 examples of biotic factors
Any living things. Examples:
bacteria, animals, plants, fungi
200
This is the evaporation of water from plant leaves.
Transpiration
200
An organism, such as a bear, eats plants and meat, which makes it this type of consumer
Omnivore
200
Write a food chain that is found in this food web. Don't forget your arrows!
Grass -> rabbit -> hawk
Grass -> rabbit -> fox
Grass -> mouse -> fox
Grass -> mouse -> hawk
Grass -> mouse -> owl
Grass -> grasshopper -> frog -> owl
Grass -> grasshopper -> frog ->snake -> hawk
Grass -> grasshopper -> bird -> snake -> hawk
200
Put the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest:
community, ecosystem, population, organism
organism, population, community, ecosystem
300
Provide 2 abiotic factors you would find in a forest.
Any non-living things. Examples:
soil, rocks, temperature, rain/water
300
This is the term for when liquid water turns into a gas (water vapor) from a body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
Evaporation
300
Vultures and coyotes eat things that are already dead, such as roadkill, and are these types of consumers
Scavengers
300
Name the organism in the third trophic level of this diagram.
Crab
300
Put the following organisms into a food chain:
mouse, grasshopper, sunflower, owl
Don't forget to put the arrows!
sunflower -> grasshopper -> mouse -> owl
400
This is the term for a group of organisms of the same species.
Population
400
In the carbon cycle, plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during this process.
Photosynthesis
400
This is another word for heterotroph
Consumer
400
According to this diagram, which organism is a tertiary consumer?
Snapper
400
This is how much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next
10%
500
Write 3 of the 8 characteristics of life.
Made of cells
Reproduce
Have DNA
Grow and develop
Need and use energy
Respond to stimuli
Maintain homeostasis
Evolve and adapt
500
List 2 ways that carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere.
Respiration
Combustion (burning) of fossil fuels
Decomposition of dead organisms
500
This is another word for an autotroph
Producer
500
Given that the first trophic level has 45,000 J of energy available, how much energy would be at the 4th trophic level?
45 J
500
The arrows in a food chain or food web represent this, since they point to the organism doing the eating
The transfer of energy