Ecology Basics
Organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other to produce fertile offspring
What is a species?
An organism that kills and eats another organism.
What is a predator?
Type of relationship where both species benefit.
What is Mutualism?
Most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
Give an example of 3 abiotic factors found in a forest.
What are: sunlight, air (oxygen, carbon dioxide), soil, water (rainfall), etc.
All of the member of one species in a particular area is referred to as what
What is a population?
When animals feed on the tissues of plants
What is herbivory?
Type of relationship where one species is harmed and the other benefits?
What is parasitism?
2 ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet?
What are coral reefs and rainforests?
An organisms home
A community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings
What is an ecosystem?
An elephant and a white rhinoceros are fighting for the same water source.
What is interspecific competition?
Relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
Most of Earth's freshwater is _______.
What is frozen / in ice caps and glaciers?
A species’ role in an ecosystem, including resource use, habitat use, food consumption, etc.
What is its niche?
All of the living things in an are
What is a community?
Male deer compete by fighting to secure access to females.
What is intraspecific competition?
Bacteria in the human gut help break down food, and in return, they receive a stable environment and nutrients.
What is mutualism?
Atmospheric layer that contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
The 4 spheres found on the planet and a description of each.
What is geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere? (must describe each)
List the 4 levels of ecological organization in order from the smallest unit of organization to the largest.
What is Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem
Camoflauge and warning coloration are often seen in these types of organisms.
What are prey?
Remoras have a specialized suction disk on their heads to attach to larger marine animals, such as sharks. The remora gains transportation and can scavenge on the host's leftover food scraps, while the shark is not significantly impacted.
What is commensalism?
Term for the crust and uppermost mantle.
What is the lithosphere?