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Ecology I
Ecology II
Ecology III
Ecology IV
Ecology V
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All the parts of the Earth where life is found.
What is the biosphere?
100
A community interacting with abiotic environment parts.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Shows complex feeding relationship among organisms in a community.
What is a food web?
100
An organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.
What is a producer?
100
The source of energy for most life on Earth.
What is the Sun?
200
An adaptation that allows an organism to hide by blending into its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
200
Eats both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
200
Members of the same species living together in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
200
In Japan, the death rate is higher than the birth rate. What is happening to the size of the population.
What is decreasing?
200
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is deciduous?
300
The place where an organism lives in a community
What is a habitat?
300
A species' role in a community.
What is a niche?
300
A series of organisms linked by their food relationships
What is food chain?
300
The maximum population size that can be supported by the available resources of a region is know as ________ capacity.
What is carrying capacity (K)?
300

A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

What is a species?

400

What are the 4 factors that influence population size?

What are birth, death, immigration and emigration. 

400
Living things in the environment such as plants and animals.
What is biotic factors?
400
This word describes individuals entering a population.
What is immigration?
400
Which number is closest to the population of the world a) 300 million b) 700 billion c) 7 billion
What is C?
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?
500
Environmental factors that limit the size of populations in an environment such as: food, water, space, shelter, competition for resources, predators and disease.
What is a limiting factor?
500
Water, soil, clouds, temperature, wind and minerals are all examples of _____________
What is an abiotic factor?
500
Interactions between organisms that limits the population due to limited food, water, territory or other factors.
What is competition?
500
Exponential human population growth is affected by:
What is disease, availability of food, lack of water?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?