Ecology
What is the scientific study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
The study of life
What is biology?
The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
What are Cells?
a proposed, testable explanation or educated guess for an observation or phenomenon
What is a hypothesis?
the global zone of life on Earth where all living things exist and interact with their environment
What is the Biosphere?
When one community replaces another as a result of changing abiotic and biotic factors.
What is ecological succession?
A group of organisms that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring
What is Species?
The reaction to a stimulus
What is Response?
The law of conservation of matter states that this stays the same before and after a change.
What is the amount of matter?
any abiotic or biotic factor that restricts the numbers, reproduction or distribution of organisms
What are Limiting Factors?
A close, long-term interaction between two different biological species, where they live together in a relationship that benefits one, both, or neither
What is symbiosis?
Anything that is part of either environment and causes some sort of reaction by the organism.
What is Stimulus?
Living things are arranged in an orderly way
What is organization?
The process of combining what you know with what you have learned to draw logical conclusions.
What is Inferring?
the close relationship that exists when two or more species live together.
What is symbiosis?
the non-living physical and chemical elements in an ecosystem that affect living organisms
What are Abiotic factors?
The addition of mass to an organism and, in many organisms, the formation of new cells and new structures
What is Growth?
The process of natural changes that take place during the life of an organism
What is Development?
The use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena, as well as the knowledge generated through this process
What is Science?
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism
What are the 3 types of Symbiosis?
List the levels of ecological organization from smallest to largest
organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere.
Regulation of an organism's internal conditions to maintain life
What is Homeostasis?
Made of one or more cells, Responds to stimuli, Displays organization, Requires energy, Grows and develops, Maintains homeostasis, Reproduces, Has adaptations that evolve over time
What are the 8 characteristics of life?
This describes relationships in nature and does not become a theory.
What is Scientific Law?
Biosphere
Biome
Ecosystem
Biological Community
Population
Organism
What are the Levels of Organization?