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Ecology Basics
Biotic and Abiotic
Energy in Ecosystems
Food Chains and Food Webs
Cycling of Matter
100
The study of interactions among living and nonliving organisms.
What is Ecology?
100
Living factors within an environment
What is biotic factors?
100
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
100
An organism that eats only producers.
What is an herbivore?
100
The main reservoir in the water cycle.
What is the ocean?
200

What level of organization includes living and nonliving things?

Ecosystem

200

What is an organism's niche?

Its role

200
A plant is an example of this.
What is a producer?
200
Organisms that can eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
200
How carbon is released into the atmosphere.
What is respiration or combustion?
300

A group of different species that lives together in one area, such as groups of alligators, turtles, birds, fish and plants that live together in the Florida Everglades.

What is Community?

300

The soil, air, and water within an ecosystem represent...

What is abiotic factors?

300

Another word for producer.

What is autotroph?

300

Eats only meat.

Carnivore

300
The process of bacteria changing gaseous nitrogen into ammonia.
What is nitrogen fixation?
400

The most regionalized level of organization, or a large group of ecosystems

What is a Biome?

400

An example of an environment with the highest level of biodiversity.

What is the rainforest?

400
The following equation for this process: 6H20 + 6CO2-->C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is photoynthesis?
400
Organisms that eat dead matter. An example would be a decomposer.
What is a detritivore?
400
The cycle most dependent on rocks and geology.
What is the Phosphorous cycle?
500

Five levels of organization in order from smallest to largest are...

What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome?

500

Name and describe a type of symbiotic relationship.

Parasitism, Mutualism, Commensalism

500
The process by which organisms form carbohydrates by using chemicals, rather than light, as their energy source.
What is chemosynthesis?
500

This is each step in a food chain or food web

What is a trophic level?

500

How is carbon moved from the atmosphere to the biosphere/hydrosphere/lithosphere?

Photosynthesis