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Question 1

abiotic

Answer 1

Physical non living factors of an environment e.g.. temperature

Question 2

adaptation

Answer 2

The action or processes of adapting (changing) to suit a changing or changed environment.

Question 3

Age structure

Answer 3

Features of the age of the population.

Question 4

Biotic

Answer 4

Living factors of an environment e.g.. moss

Question 5

Carnivore

Answer 5

An animal or plant (particularly insect- and invertebrate-eating plants) that requires a staple diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue through predation or scavenging.

Question 6

community

Answer 6

An ecological unit composed of a group of organisms or a population of different species occupying a particular area, usually interacting with each other and their environment.

Question 7

competition

Answer 7

A symbiotic relationship between or among living things for resources, such as food, space, shelter, mate, ecological status, etc.

Question 8

consumer

Answer 8

An organism that generally obtains food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter due to lack of the ability to manufacture own food from inorganic sources; a heterotroph.

Question 9

Decomposer

Answer 9

An organism whose ecological function involves the recycling of nutrients by performing the natural process of decomposition as it feeds on dead or decaying organisms.

Question 10

Density

Answer 10

compactness

Question 11

Distribution

Answer 11

The specific location or arrangement of continuing or successive objects or events in space or time.

Question 12

Ecosystem

Answer 12

A system that includes all living organisms (biotic factors) in an area as well as its physical environment (abiotic factors) functioning together as a unit.

Question 13

habitat

Answer 13

Place where an organism or a biological population normally lives or occurs.

Question 14

Herbivore

Answer 14

.Animals that consume plant material as a source of obtaining [[energy.

Question 15

Kite Diagram

Answer 15

Kite diagrams: help to illustrate zonation by showing how the amount of different vegetation types and amount of bare ground change as one moves along the transect.

Question 16

Limiting factor

Answer 16

A factor present in an environment that controls a process, particularly the growth, abundance or distribution of a population of organisms in an ecosystem.

Question 17

Mark and recapture

Answer 17

system used to estimate the population of an animal

Question 18

Microclimate

Answer 18

The climate of a very small or restricted area.

Question 19

Mortality

Answer 19

The death rate. The ratio of the total number of deaths to the total population. The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year.

Question 20

Mutualism

Answer 20

Mutualism is the way two organisms biologically interact where each individual derives a fitness benefit

Question 21

Natality

Answer 21

The birthrate, which is the ratio of total live births to total population in a particular area over a specified period of time; expressed as childbirths per 1000 people (or population) per year

Question 22

Niche

Answer 22

(1) The specific area where an organism inhabits.
(2) The role or function of an organism or species in an ecosystem.
(3) The interrelationship of a species with all the biotic and abiotic factors affecting it.

Question 23

Omnivore

Answer 23

Omnivore: An animal that feeds on both plants and animals to survive. Humans are an example

Question 24

Parasitism

Answer 24

A form of symbiosis in which one organism (called parasite) benefits at the expense of another organism usually of different species (called host). The association may also lead to the injury of the host.

Question 25

Population

Answer 25

A group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time (e.g. deer population).

Question 26

predation

Answer 26

A form of symbiotic relationship between two organisms of unlike species in which one of them acts as predator that captures and feeds on the other organism that serves as the prey.

Question 27

Producer

Answer 27

The first trophic level in a food chain in which it serves as a food source for consumers or for higher trophic levels.

Question 28

Quadrat

Answer 28

A square or rectangular plot of land used to mark off at random a physical area to isolate a sample and determine the percentage of vegetation and animals occurring within the marked area.

Question 29

Scavenger

Answer 29

An animal (such as a vulture or coyote) that eats carcasses abandoned by predators,

Question 30

Species

Answer 30

(2) An individual belonging to a group of organisms (or the entire group itself) having common characteristics

Question 31

Stratification

Answer 31

The use of chemical and mechanical systems to break dormancy and increase germination.

Question 32

succession

Answer 32

2. (ecology) The progressive replacement of one dominant type of species or community by another in an ecosystem until a stable climax community is established.

Question 33

supplementary

Answer 33

Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole.

Question 34

Tolerance

Answer 34

1. The ability to endure unusually large doses of a drug or toxin.

Question 35

Trophic Level

Answer 35

A position in a food chain or Ecological Pyramid occupied by a group of organisms with similar feeding mode.

Question 36

Zonation

Answer 36

(ecology) The categorization of biomes into zones based on their distribution or arrangement in a habitat as determined by environmental factors, e.g. altitude, latitude, temperature, other biotic factors, etc.