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Vocabulary
Food Webs
Growth
Biodiversity
Misc.
100

An environment that provides the things an organism neds to live, grow, and reproduce.

What is a habitat?

100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
100

This happens to a population when death rates are higher than birth rates

What is declines?

100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200

This is the type of growth a population can undergo when there's unlimited space and resources.

What is the exponential growth?

200
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species dissappeared.
What is a keyston species?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300

A group of land ecosysems with similiar climates and orgaisms.

What is a biome?

300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

This growth occurs when limiting factors are observed within a population.

What is logistic growth?
300
The two reasons biodiversity is important.
What are for economic reasons, medical reasons, scientific reasons, enviromental reasons?
300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400

Describe the difference between primary succession and secondary succession.

What is primary starts with no soil and secondary succession does?

400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400

This is the dashed line that represents limiting factors in regards to population growth.

What is carrying capacity?

400
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
What are living fossils?
400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500

Name 2 density-dependent limiting factors and 2 density-independent limiting factors.

What are...?

500
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
What are indicator species?
500
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?