Vocabulary
This is another name for a living thing
What is organism?
This is an organism's specific role or "job"
What is niche?
This succession starts with only bare rock.
What is Primary Succession?
This is the type of symbiotic relationship between clown fish and sea anenomes
What is mutualism?
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce
What is a habitat?
This will happen to the population of the death rate is higher than the birth rate
What is the population will decrease?
This the process in which a species becomes more suited for its environment
What is natural selection?
This is the organism that is killed and eaten in predation
What is prey?
This is a relationship in which both species benefit
What is a mutualism?
This succession has a head start because it already has soil
What is Secondary Succession?
This is the name of the population counting method where nesting sites may be counted
What is indirect observation?
These are the 3 needs of an organism that are provided by its habitat
What is food, shelter, and water?
This the term for when members leave a population
What is emigration?
These are characteristics that allow a species to live successfully in its environment
What are adaptations?
The cutting down of trees and plant life resulting in the negative effect on the environment
What is deforestation?
A tick living on a dog would be this type of relationship
What is parasitism?
What are pioneer species?
A Forest fire might be the start of this kind of succession
What is a secondary succession?
The non-living parts of an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
This is the number if individuals in an area of a specific size
What is population density?
An adaptation where organisms blend into their environment
What is camouflage?
This is an interaction where one organism kills and eats another
What is predation or predator/prey?
This is the name for an organism that is eaten by a predator
What is prey?
Forest Fires come before which ecological succession
What is secondary succession?
This is the method scientists are using if they count every single organism in a population
What is direct observation?
This is the name to describe all the organisms of the same species in an ecosystem
What is a population?
These are three different limiting factors for populations
What are disease, natural disasters, weather, food availability, predation, etc?
This is the result when two organisms attempt to occupy the same niche
What is competition or one organism will outcompete the other?
This is the organism harmed in parasitism
What is the host?
These are the three main types of interactions among organisms
What are competition, predation and symbiosis?
This is how pioneer species help develop soil
What is they break up rocks (using acids) to create soil and as they die and decompose they become soil themselves?
This is the final stage of ecological succession
What is a climax community?
This is the correct order for the following levels of organization from smallest to largest:
Ecosystem, Organism, Community, Population
What is: organism, population, community, Ecosystem?
These are the 4 main ways to determine population size
What are direct observation, indirect observation, sampling, and mark-and-recapture study?
These are on example each of parasitism, commensalism and mutualism
Answers may vary: What are any examples of two species that benefit each other, one species benefits and one is unaffected and one species benefits and one is harmed