Definitions
This is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
This is what we call the first level of the food chain.
What are producers?
This is the type of relationship benefits one organism and harms another.
What is predation?
It increases resilience and stability.
Why is biodiversity important for ecosystems?
These are the four levels of organization in ecology, starting from the individual.
What are organism, population, community, ecosystem?
These are the living components of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
This is the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This is a relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
This term describes the variety of species in a given area.
What is species richness?
What is energy lost in food chains primarily dissipated as?
What is heat?
These are the non-living components of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
Name one type of consumer that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
In this type of relationship one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
This can cause a decline in biodiversity.
What is habitat destruction?
What type of ecological succession occurs in an area where no soil exists?
What is primary succession?
This is the term for a group of individuals of the same species living in the same area.
What is a population?
This is the term for the maximum number of individuals an environment can support?
What is carrying capacity?
This is the relationship called when one organism lives off another, often harming it.
What is parasitism?
This is the term for the gradual change in species composition in an ecosystem over time.
What is ecological succession?
Which gas is primarily responsible for global warming?
What is carbon dioxide?