Ecology Definitions/Concepts
Pyramid
Food Webs
Human Impact
one community after another
Human Impact 2
100

The study of how organisms interact with the environment

Ecology

100

What is the original source of energy

Sun

100

Name 1 effect on web if grasshopppers decreased in nember

Many Answers

100

Name a negative effect of burning fossil Fuels

Many answers

100

Most Stable Community

Hardwood

100

Name 2 Fossil Fuels

Gas, Oil, Coal

200

Non Living

Abiotic

200

That type of organism (Vore) is a secondary consumer

Carnivore

200

What do arrows represent

Transfer of Energy

200

Name a negative effect from a hole in the ozone

Skin Cancer

200

Name this process

Ecological Succession

200

Name an alternate to Fossil Fuels

Wind, Sun, ....

300

The number of all the species living in an area

Community

300

How to you know if this pyramid is stable or unstable

It is Stable because it is in the correct pyramid form

300

Name missing component of the food web

Sun

300

Name of negative effect from climate change

ice caps melting, flooding, extreme storms, animals can't adapt and die

300

Why is each stage important


each stage puts nutrients in the soil so the next can grow

300

Negative and Positive to Nuclear Fuel

Radiation, Clean Energy

Many Answers

400

The number of organisms of any species that an ecosystem can support

Carrying Capacity

400

Why do you get less energy from eating a 3 consumer?

Energy is lost as heat due to metabolism at each feeding level

400

What is the role of decomposers

Recycle Nitrogen back into the soil

400

Name a gas that causes acid rain

Sulfer or Nitrogen

400

Name of the pioneer organism

Lichen

400

Negative and Positive of Fertilizers

Acid Rain or Algae Blooms

More crops

500

Name 2 materials that are recyled in nature

Oxygen, Nitrogen, Water

500

The term for chemical get more concentrated as it moves up the food chain

Biological Magnification

500

A relationship where one organism benefits and nothing happens to other

Commensalism

500

The term for using a pheromone or bringing in a natural predator

Biological Control

500

Biome of NYS

Temperate Deciduous Forest

500

Name 1 invasive species and why is it harmful

zebra mussel. Gypsy Moth

it disrupts the wood web