Ecology 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
An animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
Put the following in order: community, biosphere, organism, ecosystem, population
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere?
Amount or number of species in a particular population.
What is population density?
Name an example of a density dependent limiting factor.
What is competition, disease, parasitism?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
Energy from one trophic level to the next is lost as
What is heat?
Type of pyramid that shows amount of matter at each trophic level
What is biomass pyramid?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
Another name for a producer
What is an autotroph?
Evaporation of water from trees and other plants
What is transpiration?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Type of population growth that "levels off" at carrying capacity.
What is logistic?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
This occurs when you move up trophic levels
What is the amount of available energy decreases
Food chains that are interconnected in a particular ecosystem; complex diagram of feeding relationships
What is a food web?
At the base of an energy pyramid, what are those organisms called?
What are producers
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
Name a cycle that fixes a gas out of the atmosphere to allow it to be used by organisms.
What is Carbon or Nitrogen Cycle?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
When bacteria return gas back to the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
An association between two different species where the symbiont benefits and the host is harmed....
What is Parasitism?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
Name the biome that would have the lowest primary productivity.
What is Tundra or Desert?
An association between two different species where one species enjoys a benefit, and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?
2 reasons why invasive species can reproduce and populate very quickly in an ecosystem.
No competition and no predators.
The orderly process where one biological community replaces another on bare rock where no life has been before.
What is Primary Succession?
The orderly replacement of community after a forest fire.
What is Secondary Succession?