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Ecology levels of organization
Biotic and abiotic factors
Food Webs
Food Chains
Ecological Methods
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The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their physical environment.
What is Ecology?
100
rock and ants
What is an abiotic and biotic interaction?
100
A network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
A series of steps in an ecosystem in which an organism transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
What is a food web?
100
Ecologists watch the natural world, both plants and animals, usually over long periods of time to see what changes happen.
What is observation?
200
A pride of lions
What is a population?
200
Living factors in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
200
An organisms in this food chain can transform light energy into chemical bond energy.
What is autotrophs/ primary producers?
200
a Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which an organism uses those conditions.
What is a niche?
200
Ecologist puts GPS tags on animals, and then use the computer to create a real-life phenomenon of the animal's movements
What is modeling?
300
Lions and Gazelles in Africa's savannas.
What is Ecosystem?
300
Components of air, water, soil, temperature and wind.
What is abiotic factors?
300
An organism that are chiefly responsible for the recycling of dead matter.
What is decomposers?
300
I am missing from this natural community Autotroph ---> _____ ------> carnivore
What is herbivore?
300
Prof. Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin involved adding top predator fish to lakes to see if this would control primary production.
What is Experimentation?
400
Life on Earth.
What is Biosphere?
400
plants, animals, fungi, micro-organisms
What is abiotic?
400
The relative amount of energy or matter contained within each trophic level in a food web.
What is ecological pyramid?
400
The process by which organisms use chemical energy to produce carbohydrate.
What is chemosynthesis?
400
Binoculars, microscopes and telescopes
What is magnifying tools?
500
The Greek word "oikos" which mean house
What is ecology?
500
The amount of salt in the air and water of coastal areas determines which species can exist there. In these areas, salt function as a_____
What is abiotic limiting factors?
500
It illustrates the relative amount of living organic matter available at each trophic level in an ecosytem.
What is a biomass pyramid?
500
Organisms that attack other living organisms but rarely kill them.
What is a parasite?
500
Ecologist use smaller artificial environment to test their hypothesis.
What is controlled experiment?