Ecological Organization
Living organisms that inhabit an environment
What is biotic?
Plant eaters
What are herbivores?
This represents the energy available at each trophic level
What is an energy pyramid?
This is the number of individuals of the same species in an area. (ex. 50 balsam poplars/acre)
What is population density?
This is the unique role a species plays in the environment
What is niche?
Nonliving parts of an environment
What is abiotic
Meat eaters
What are carnivores?
Grass can be found on this trophic level
What is producer?
A "J" curve represents this type of population growth
What is exponential growth?
A panda who can only eat bamboo is an example of this type of tolerance.
What is specialists?
An individual thing that can reproduce and create fertile offspring
What is an organism/species?
Both plant and meat eaters
What are omnivores?
Organisms in this trophic level are herbivores
What is primary consumer?
An "S" curve on a graph occurs when the population has reached this
What is carrying capacity?
A clownfish and anemone are examples of this type of relationship.
What is mutualism?
A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
What is a biome?
This organism obtains energy from the sun through photosynthesis
What are producers/plants?
What amount of energy gets transferred to each trophic level?
What is 10%?
This type of limiting factor has examples such as predators, competition, and are usually biotic.
What is density-dependent?
One organism benefits and the other is unaffected is this type of relationship.
What is commensalism?
List the 6 levels of ecological organization from smallest to largest
What is Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere
This shows many overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
A producer has 1,000,000kcal of energy. How much energy will the secondary consumer receive?
What is 10,000kcal?
Name 3 examples of density-independent factors.
What are hurricane, tornado, volcano erruption, earth quake....etc.
Invasive species are bad for an ecosystem for this primary reason.
What is they have no known predators?