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A logging company logs an area of woods - this is an example of _______ succession.
What is secondary?
Define ecology.
What is the study of life and interactions?
What is energy?
What are herbivores?
A population has outgrown is carrying capacity. The population will now....
What is the population will decrease so its at or below carrying capacity?
An island is created from a volcanic eruption - this is an example of _______ succession.
What is primary?
Define autotroph.
What is an organism that can produce its own food?
T or F - correct if false.
Energy is pass down through tropic levels. Each level gets 50% of the available energy.
What is false - each level gets 10%?
These organisms eat producers and other consumers.
What are omnivores?
A population has reached its carrying capacity, which is....
What is the number of organisms that an area can hold or provide for?
If people start to overfish an area, that area will see a _________ in the fish populations.
What is decrease?
Define population.
What is a single species found in an area?
Some of Earth's resources are finite. These are called ______________.
What are nonrenewable resources OR fossil fuels?
Biosphere, biome, ecosystems, community, population, species are the ___________ of ecology.
What are the levels?
A heterotroph....
What is cannot make its own food/has to consume other consumers?
A forest has recently become part of a nature preserve. This means hunting is restricted or not allowed at all. Because of this, the endangered bear population will now have the opportunity to _______.
What is the bear population will increase?
Define commensalism.
What is one species benefits without harming or benefitting the other?
In a food web, the rabbits are suddenly removed. This will affect.....
What is increase the producers, but decrease the 2nd level consumers?
A bird removes ticks from a large herbivore, while the herbivore helps locate predators. This is an example of...
What is mutualism?
What is one organism benefits, while the other is harmed?
Renewable energy is the "way of the future." By using these types of energy, people will be able to _________ pollution and _________ our available resources.
What is reduce and increase?
Define a biome.
What is an area characterized by climate and the types of plants and animals that are found there?
Succession is....
What are changes in an ecosystem?
An organism that produce its own food is known as a...
What is autotroph/producer?
Why do we study ecology?
What is to understand how organisms interact and how this affects the ecosystem?