What is ecology?
Energy, Producers, and Consumers
Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Community Interactions
At your own risk!
100
The name given to living parts of an environment.
what are biotic factors
100
The role in an ecosystem of plants and green algae.
What is producers or autotrophs
100
a diagram showing organisms that eat and are eaten
What is a food chain or food web
100
Various organisms that rely on the same resources will often engage in
What is competition
100
The body system that controls breathing and gas exchange
What is the respiratory system
200
The word that refers the study of how organisms interact with each other.
what is ecology
200
the main source of energy comes from......
What is the sun
200
a diagram used to show the amount of energy at each feeding level
What is an energy pyramid
200
an interaction in which one organism captures and preys on another animal
What is a predator prey relationship
200
scientist often use this to explain a phenomena
What is a theory
300
The name for the specific role an organism plays in the environment. This includes food eaten, habitat and interactions with other organisms.
what is its niche
300
the name for consumers that eat energy rich plants
What are heterotrophs or herbivores
300
Energy flows in a one way stream from primary producers to
What is various consumers or consumers
300
This kind of relationship in which both species benefit
What is mutualism
300
genes are usually located here
What are chromosomes (nucleus or DNA are also acceptable)
400
What are the non-living conditions in an environment such as temperature, sunlight and pH level called?
what are abiotic factors
400
plants obtain energy from sunight and turn it into nutrients that can in turn be eaten and used for energy by animals. This process is known as
What is photosynthesis
400
The percentage of the total food energy is lost at each level of a food pyramid. This energy is mostly used for moving and keeping warm.
What is 90%
400
Tapeworms that live in the intestines of mammals and are harmful represents this type of relationship
What is parasitism
400
the living environment regents will be given on this date and time
What is june 16th at 1:15pm
500
The name given to all the members of a species residing in the same area
What is a population
500
a diagram that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem
What is a food chain or food web
500
organisms that return nutrients back into the environment by eating dead organisms
What are decomposers or scavengers
500
Small marine animals called barnacles attach themselves to a whale's skin in which it benefits but the whale is neither helped or harmed. The name for this type of relationship is:
What is commensalism
500
the theory that describes how all organims have a common ancestor
What is evolution