Ecology Basics
The term for non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
A specific area where an organism lives, including its resources and conditions.
What is a Habitat?
A single living thing in an ecosystem.
What is an Organism?
This term describes an animal that eats only other animals.
What is a Carnivore?
This relationship occurs when both organisms benefit.
What is Mutualism?
The term for all living things in an ecosystem
What is Biotic?
A group of organisms of the same species living in a particular area.
What is a Population?
This term refers to organisms that make their own food.
What is a Producer?
The different levels of feeding in an ecosystem, from producers to top consumers.
What are Trophic Levels?
A relationship where one organism benefits, and the other is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
This is a visual tool used to organize and display relationships between concepts.
What is a Concept Map?
This includes all the living organisms in an area, interacting with one another.
What is a Community?
Organisms that eat only plants.
What is a Herbivore?
The series of steps showing how energy moves from producers to consumers.
What is a Food Chain?
A relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another.
What is Parasitism?
These are the features that define whether something is alive.
What are the Characteristics of Life?
The maximum number of individuals an environment can sustainably support.
What is Carrying Capacity?
Organisms that break down dead material and recycle nutrients.
What is a Decomposer?
Organisms that must eat other organisms to get energy are called this.
What are Heterotrophs?
A predator-prey relationship where one organism hunts and eats another.
What is Predation?
The branch of biology that studies interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
Factors that restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of a population.
What are Limiting Factors?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an Omnivore?
The term for an organism that directly uses sunlight for energy.
What is an Autotroph?
This type of species plays a crucial role in maintaining the structure of an ecosystem.
What is a Keystone Species?