Taxonomy
The first classification system was developed by who?
Who is Aristotle?
The place where a plant or animal lives is called this.
What is habitat?
Factors of an ecosystem that are non living are known as this.
What is abiotic factor?
This kind of organism interaction is where one organism benefits while the other organism is not helped or harmed.
What is commensalism?
Producers that use energy from sunlight to make their own nutrients are known as this.
What are autotrophs?
The largest group for classification of organisms is what level?
What is a kingdom?
These are the basic needs of plants.
What is sunlight, water, nutrients, air, space?
The factors in the environment that are living are known as this.
What are biotic factors?
This type of interaction is where both organisms benefit from the interaction.
What is mutualism?
Animals that get energy from eating producers or other consumers are called this.
What are heterotrophs?
The smallest level of classification is known as a ...
What is a species?
These are the basic needs of animals.
What is food, water, oxygen, space, and shelter?
These are things that limit a populations growth.
What are limiting factors?
This example of mutualism was given in your study guide.
What is plant and pollinator?
Animals that feed on both plants and other animals are called this.
What is an omnivore?
What level of organization comes between the family and the species?
What is a genus?
This term refers to how a species makes a living in its environment.
What is a niche?
The maximum number of a kind of organism that the environment can handle is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
This kind of organism interaction is where one organism receives benefits and the other organism is harmed.
What is parasitism?
All organisms on Earth, including humans, are part of the two main interconnected __________ food webs, the ocean food web and the land food web.
What is global?
What level of organization comes between the phylum and the order?
What is a class?
This is what happens when two organisms try to access the same resources.
What is competition?
A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
What is a keystone species?
A lion hunting, killing, and eating a zebra is an example of this type of organism interaction.
What is predation?
All forms of life on Earth are this.
What is carbon based?