Ecology Basics
An individual living thing
What is an organism?
The arrows in a food chain or a food web represent this
What is energy transfer/flow?
a process where an organism transforms itself from a single cell into a more complex, multicellular organism
What is development?
What is a producer?
Favorite color
What is blue?
The study of how organisms interact with their environment
What is ecology?
One possible path energy and nutrients can move through as one organism eats another
What is a food chain?
The ability to survive to reproductive age, find a mate and produce offspring
What is fitness?
The highest level of organization in ecology
What is a biosphere?
Where Ms. Vianette went to college
What is University of Florida?
A group of organisms of one species living in the same area at the same time
What is a population?
A network of interconnected food chains
What is a food web?
When one species mimics another species in terms of sound, appearance, smell, behavior, or location
What is mimicry?
Water is an example of this type of factor
What is an abiotic factor?
How long Ms. Vianette has been at the Berkeley Academy
What is one year?
A mushroom is an example of this type of factor
What is a biotic factor?
An organism that resides at the top of a food chain and is never consumed
What is an apex predator?
An increase in size and mass of an organism over a period of time
What is growth?
The amount of energy lost at each level of the energy pyramid
What is 90 percent?
Where Ms. Vianette was born
What is New Jersey?
together, biotic and abiotic factors make up this
What is an ecosystem?
What is a trophic level?
These are two way in which fitness can be achieved
What is mimicry and coloration?
This is feeding relationship that involves an organism that eats another organism and an organism that is eaten by another organism
What is a predator-prey feeding relationship?
What is Tufts?