Eco-Vocab
Relations & Biodiversity
Food Webs & Energy
Human Impact
Cycles & Sustainability
100
Living parts of an ecosystem (e.g., animals, plants).
What is biotic?
100
The ecological relationship between a blood drinking tick and a deer.
What is a Parasite?
100
These organisms make their own food.
What are producers or autotrophs?
100
One way humans reduce biodiversity.
What is pollution, deforestation, or urban sprawl?
100
The gas plants take in during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
The role an organism plays in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
200
The variety of life in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
200
A consumer that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
200
A species that is at risk of disappearing from an area.
What is extirpated or endangered?
200
The process by which plants use sunlight to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
Organisms that break down dead matter and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
300
Two wild dogs get into a fight over who gets a piece of meat they found. What ecological relationship is this?
What is competition?
300
The path of energy/food transfer from one organism to another.
What is a food chain/web?
300
Why are invasive species a problem?
They outcompete native species and disrupt food webs.
300
There are three spheres that make up the Biosphere. What is the one for water?
What is Hydrosphere?
400
All the living organisms in an area interacting together.
What is a community?
400
This ecological relationship.
What is the Mutualism?
400
What is the name of a species that, without it, would cause a ecosystem collapse?
What are Keystone Species?
400
An organism that can eat plastic is called what?
What is a plastivore?
400
A sustainable resource is one that...
What is can be used without running out or can be replenished naturally?
500
The maximum population size an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
500
One reason biodiversity might decrease in an area.
What is habitat loss, pollution, climate change, or invasive species?
500
What happens as a toxin/pollution moves up a food web?
What is Biomagnification or it builds up the higher in a food web it goes.
500
What is the difference between Global Warming and Climate Change?
What is one is about the world heating up, and the other is about weather changing.
500
Describe one human action that disrupts the carbon cycle.
What is burning fossil fuels or deforestation?