Symbiosis
Organisms that live in the same place and interact in some way have a ________________ relationship.
What is symbiosis?
These show the transfer of energy from one organism to another.
What are food chains and food webs?
The place where an organism lives; its address.
What is a habitat?
The study of life.
What is biology?
The study of interactions that take place between an organism and their environment.
What is ecology?
This type of symbiotic relationship occurs when organisms fight for resources, such as food, shelter and mates.
What is competition?
An intertwined system of food chains.
What is a food web?
When talking about levels of ecological organization, we could call one single organism this.
What is an individual?
The movement of individuals out of a population to somewhere else.
What is emigration?
Within a food chain, these organisms must consume their energy through the food they eat.
What is a heterotroph or consumer?
This type of symbiotic relationship occurs when both organisms receive a benefit from the relationship.
Every food web and food chain starts with this.
What is a producer?
A group of individuals of the same species.
In a food chain, these are responsible for breaking down all of the dead waste.
What are decomposers?
Within a food chain, these types of organisms produce their own energy through photosynthesis.
What are producers or autotrophs?
This type of symbiotic relationship occurs when an organisms lives on or in a "host" organism causing some harm.
What is parasitism?
The distance from producers that an organism eats.
Two or more populations that live together in a particular area.
What is a community?
An environmental factor that stops populations from growing or causes them to decline.
What is a limiting factor?
Matter __________ through an ecosystem.
What is cycles?
This type of relationship occurs when 1 organism benefits from the relationship while the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
This states that only 10% of energy at any given trophic is transferred to the next trophic level.
What is the 10% Rule?
This is the ideal number of organisms that an ecosystem can support.
What is the carrying capacity?
This growth model is more accurate than others because it takes into consideration the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.
What is the logistical growth model?
We lose almost 90% of our energy as...
What is heat?