Ecology
This term refers to non-living aspects of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic
Relationship between two or more different organisms in which one benifits and one is harmed.
What is paratisism?
Another name for a Producer in an ecosystem.
What is an Autotroph?
Non-living parts of an ecoystem.
What are abiotic factors?
A combination of many food chains interacting with one another.
What is a Food Web?
This is the term for living, or once living, factors in an ecosystem.
What is biotic.
A symbiotic relationship between a tape worm and a human.
What is parasitism.
These are located on the second trophic level.
What are primary consumers?
Chemical equation in which sunlight and water is converted to oxygen and glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
Primary producer in a marine environment.
What are Plankton?
Study of Ecosystems.
What is Ecology?
A symbiotic relationship between a Rhino and a Tick Bird.
What is Mutualism?
What happens to energy as triphic levles increase?
Available energy decreases as trophic levels increase.
Grass => Cow => Human
What is a Food Chain?
A bracket fungus grows on a dead tree and breaks it down into chemical nutrients. What term BEST describes the role of a bracket fungus?
What is a Decomposer?
Total number of organisms that an ecosystem can sustain.
What is Carrying Capacity?
The type of relationship a Hawk and Mouse have
What is Predator - Prey
Almost all of the energy on Earth comes from this source.
What is the Sun?
The number of a individuals in a population in a certain area.
What is Population Density?
Evaporation of water from the leaves of plants.
What is Transpiration?
Energy changes in an ecosystem as it move through trophic levels.
What is energy decreases as trophic levels increase?
Symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is not harmed, but does not benefit.
What is commensalism?
How does energy become unavaible as it moves through trophic levels up the energy pyramid?
What dissipates as heat in an energy pyramid?
Which level of a food chain has the most energy?
What are producers in a food chain?
Which level of a food chain would be negatively affected initially if the secondary consumers were removed?
What are tertiary consumers?