Terms
The science that studies the interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
This is a change of climates within a small area.
What is microclimate?
Define an abiotic factor.
A non-living factor affecting species abundance and dispersal (Temperature, Sunlight, Wind, Soil Type, etc)
Rainfall affects dispersal of a population by changing a bend in a river between the population.
Abiotic
What is the term used to describe the richness of an ecosystem?
What is Biodiversity?
This consists of all the organisms in a particular region, along with nonliving components.
What is an ecosystem?
The goal of this level of ecology is to understand factors affecting population growth, density, and size. It also involves studies of species interactions such as predation and mutualism.
What is population ecology?
Which determines broad species distributions: climate or weather?
What is climate?
An ascaris nematode feeds on nutrients in the intestines of a pig.
Biotic (Predation)
The process of making new products from materials that were used in another product.
What is recycling or a matter cycle?
A major groupings of plant and animal communities defined by a dominant vegetation type is known as a what?
Biome
What is the largest level of ecology?
What is the Biosphere?
Solar radiation (increases/decreases) with increasing latitude?
Decreases because of the tilt of the Earth, the most direct sunlight will hit at the equator.
A tiger affects the dispersal of gazelle by consuming newborn young.
Biotic (Predation)
The loss of living space due to human activity or catastrophic events.
What is habitat loss
Define community.
A collection of different living organisms within a given area.
What are the three different latitudinal zones?
What are polar, temperate, and tropical zones?
This abiotic factor is essential for all life on Earth and has 2 separate biomes associated with it.
What is water?
An ox-bird eats the parasites of the skin of a cow.
Biotic (Mutualism)
Release of harmful materials into the environment.
What is pollution
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Climate: The prevailing long-term weather conditions found in an area.
Weather: Specific short-term atmospheric conditions of temperature, precipitation, sunlight, and wind.
List the six levels of ecology from smallest to largest.
Organismal, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and global
Give five examples of an abiotic factor.
1) Soil Type
2) Temperature
3) Climate
4)Water
5)Wind
Worms are unable to living in a certain environment because of the soil type.
Abiotic
Plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native.
What is an invasive species