Terms
The science that studies the interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
This level produces the most energy and is the start of the food web/chains
What is producers?
Define abiotic factors and give five examples of an abiotic factor.
Abiotic: non-living things
1) Soil Type
2) Temperature
3) Climate
4)Water
5)Wind
In this relationship one organism benefits and one is unharmed
what is commensalism?
These organisms are the recyclers in their area.
What are decomposers?
This consists of all the organisms in a particular region, along with nonliving components.
What is an ecosystem?
This level contains top predators.
What is quaternary consumers?
Which determines broad species distributions: climate or weather?
CLIMATE
Weather, because it is short term, is more likely to impact an individual organism rather than the entire population.
In this relationship one organism benefits and one is harmed or dies
What is parasitism?
What is the vocabulary word that has explains how many organisms can live in an area
What is carrying capacity.
A major groupings of plant and animal communities defined by a dominant vegetation type is known as a what?
Biome
This level contains herbivores.
What is primary consumers?
A fire burns down a forest and things re-grow again.
What is secondary succesion?
In this relationship both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
Living factors that affect species abundance and dispersal is known as a...?
Biotic Factor
Which one shows more biodiversity and explain why...food chains or food webs?
Food webs. It shows all the options for animals to eat in that area.
How much energy is lost as you move up the food chain/web?
What is -10%?
What are some limiting factors that affect carrying capacity
biotic and abiotic factors.
space, food, oxygen, predators, hunters, water.
What is predator-prey?
After a natural disaster.
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.
Which levels contain omnivores and carnivores
What are secondary consumers and tertiary consumers?
Predator-prey: predator hunter to eat right away
Parasitism: Parasite lives on the host for food and shelter for as long as it can
Explain the difference between primary succession and secondary succession.
Primary: new land. First time growing and making an ecosystem
Secondary: Restarts an ecosystem after a natural disaster.