biology 13-14 Flashcards
Define ecology
The study of interactions among living things.
list the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest
Organisms, population, community, ecosystems, bio something.
- Explain the difference between biotic and abiotic factors. Give examples of each.
Biotic–living factors (bacteria), abiotic–nonliving factors (weather)
- Define biodiversity. Why is it important?
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- What is a keystone species?
An organism that has an unusually large effect on its environment.
- Explain the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs. Give an example
auto trips, producer (plants) heterotrophs, consumer (eat)
- What is a food chain?
a sequence that links species by their feeding relationship.
B. Explain the difference between carnivores and herbivores.
Carnivores, consuming other animals only. Herbivores, eat only plants. Omnivores, eat both.
- Explain the difference between detritivores and decomposers .
detritivores, consume dead matter. decomposers, is a type of detritivores that drank down organic matter.
- What is a food web?
A model that shows the complex network of?
- Describe the water cycle.
The flow of water from the atmosphere to the surface, to below ground, and then back.
- What 2 processes cycle oxygen through the atmosphere?
Photosynthesis and respiration.
- What Organism fixes nitrogen a form we can use?
Bacteria
- What happens to the amount of energy as you move up the food chain?
It decreases 90%.
- What does a pyramid of numbers show?
The number of individuals and in atropic level.