Terms
The study of how living things interact with each other and their physical environment.
What is ecology?
Organisms that break down the wastes or dead material from both producers and consumers.
What are decomposers?
A living relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
Smaller classifications within a biome, such as a forest or a lake.
What is an ecosystem?
This "treeless plain" is one the coldest and driest biomes on Earth.
What is the tundra?
The first organisms to establish homes in a barren or disturbed environment.
What is a pioneer species?
An organism that is known as "one that eats many"
What is an omnivore?
A living relationship where both organisms benefit out of the living situation.
What is mutualism?
Area of the world that classified by its dominant plant species.
What is a biome?
A series of changes in the species that make up a community over time.
What is ecological succession?
The perspective from which you live and view the world around you.
What is a worldview?
A list of organisms, beginning with a producer, arranged in order of what feeds on it.
What is a food chain?
A living relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped.
What is commensalism?
A single living thing within an ecosystem.
What is an organism?
A solid, permanently frozen are of soil.
The abiotic cycle that restores an element required for protein synthesis and DNA back to organisms and their environment.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The best food sources for decomposers.
What are nitrogen and carbon dioxide?
An organism that is harmed by a parasite.
What is a host organism?
All the organisms of one species living in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
Term used to describe temperate grasslands in South Africa.
What are veldts?
Plants that live on the surface of other plants.
What are epiphytes?
This term describes an organism’s position in a food chain or food web based on how it gets energy.
What is a trophic level?
An extreme type of mutualism where 2 organisms live together and cannot survive with out each other.
What is obligate symbiosis?
The layers of the Earth where life exists.
What is the biosphere?
Supportive, large branching ridges near the base of trees.
What are buttresses?