Define
Concepts
Consumers
Relationships
100
What is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment?
Ecology
100
Does photosynthesis contribute to ecology?
Yes, it is how plants convert sunlight to energy
100
What type of animal eats only plants?
Herbivores
100
One organism hunts and the other is killed.
What is predation?
200
what is an organism that can produce its own food?
Autotroph.
200
T or F Energy is pass down through tropic levels?
False
200
What type of animals eat only animals?
Carnivores
200
when 2 organisms living together in a close relationship
Symbiosis
300
The role, or way of life of a species within its environment.
Define niche.
300
The maximum number of a population that an ecosystem can support
Carrying Capicity
300
What type of organism eats plants and animals?
Omnivore
300
Both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
400
Only one species benefits without harming or benefitting the other.
Define commensalism.
400
What is the amount of energy passed from one tropic level to the next
10
400
What type of organism breaks down dead organisms?
Decomposer
400
One organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
500
Give 1 reason as to why the elk population dropped below the carrying capacity
answers will vary
500
What are the levels of ecological organization (small to large)
population, community, organism, biosphere, ecosystem
Organism→Population→Community→Ecosystem→Biosphere
500
What type of organism eats dead and/or decaying matter?
Detritivore/Scavenger
500
When 2 organisms both need the same resources, they are in?
Competition