Ecological Pyramid
The section at the very bottom of an ecological pyramid
What are producers?
Where all of the world gets their energy from
What is the Sun?
The max number of individuals of a species that an environment can support
What is a carrying capacity?
An organisms role in a habitat
What is a niche?
The benefits or costs that an organism gets from interacting with another organism
What is a symbiotic relationship?
The animals that get their energy by eating other animals/plants
What is a consumer
All of the food chains in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
The number of individuals per unit area
What is population density?
The entire planet, including land, ocean, and atmosphere
What is the biosphere?
The kind of relationship that a shark and remora fish have
What is Mutualism?
How much energy is lost each time you go higher in the Pyramid
10%
What is photosynthesis?
How individuals in a population are spaced out across a range of populations
A collection of different populations living and interacting within an ecosystem
What is a community?
A competition between individuals from the same species
What is intraspecific competition?
The amount of energy in each trophic level within a food chain/web.
What is an ecological pyramid
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
What is a food chain?
The words for when individuals come into a habitat or leave a habitat
What is immigration and emigration?
The words for nonliving and living factors in an ecosystem
Abiotic and Biotic factors
A species on which other species largely depend on, such that if it were removed, the ecosystem would change drastically
What is a keystone species?
On an ecological pyramid with tiny fish, sharks, and algae on it, where would the shark be? (say a specific name!)
What is a secondary consumer?
The formula for chemosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide + water + hydrogen sulfide = oxygen + sugar + sulfur
Ways to find out a population of an area
What are random sampling techniques and and mark and recapture techniques?
Name the levels of organization from smallest to largest
What is species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?
The relationship between a polar bear and a tape worm
What is parasitism?