The interactions that organisms have with their surroundings and environment.
What is ecology.
100
How energy flows through one path of many in what is called a food web
What is food chain
100
anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter
100
body of knowledge based on the study of the natural world
What is science
200
an organism that only eats meat
What is a carnivore
200
living factors in organism's environment.
What is biotic factors
200
An organism that only eats plants
What is herbivore
200
a chemical substance that an organism must consume in order to survive
What is nutrient
200
an explanation of a natural phenomenon supported by many observation and experiments over time.
What is theory
300
organism that eats both plants and animals
What is omnivore.
300
non-living factor in an organism's environment.
What is abiotic factor.
300
organism that produce their own food in an ecosystem.
What is autotroph
300
the process when soil bacteria releases nitrogen compounds into the nitrogen gas where it then returns to the atmosphere
What is dentrification
300
something that has proven 100 percent true
What is scientific Law
400
Types of organism Eat detritus particles (waste)
What is Detritovore.
400
a large group of ecosystems that share similar climate and communites
What is biome
400
the way energy flows through an ecosystem is through a food web where organisms eat other organisms in certain situations
What is food web
400
the process of capturing and converting nitrogen into a form that is usable by plants
What is nitrogen fixation
400
set of moral principles and value
What is ethics
500
Heterotroph that consumes the carcasses of dead animals but does not typically kill them itself.
What is Scavengers.
500
Relationships where organisms can benefit off of each other.
What is symbiosis
500
Each step in a food chain and food web
What is tropic level
500
The exchange of matter through the biosphere.
What is biogeochemical cycle
500
process by which the procedures and results of an experiment are evaluated by other scientists who are in the same field or who are conducting similar research