Biology Review-Ecology

Question 1

Trophic levels

Answer 1

The feeding levels in a ecosystem

Question 2

What percentage of energy gets passed on to a higher level?

Answer 2

10%

Question 3

Producer name and definition

Answer 3

Autotrophs, make their own food

Question 4

Primary consumer

Answer 4

Heterotrophs, herbivores

Question 5

Secondary consumer

Answer 5

Carnivores or omnivores

Question 6

Tertiary consumer

Answer 6

Carnivores or omnivores

Question 7

Intraspecific community interaction

Answer 7

Members of the same species

Question 8

Interspecific community interaction

Answer 8

Two or more members of different species

Question 9

Competition

Answer 9

The struggle for limited natural resources

Question 10

Competitive exclusion principle and other names

Answer 10

Two species cannot occupy the same niche at the same time in the same place, resource or niche partitioning

Question 11

Predation

Answer 11

When one organism feeds on another

Question 12

Batesian mimicry

Answer 12

Harmless form looks like a dangerous form

Question 13

Mullerian mimicry

Answer 13

Dangerous forms look like each other

Question 14

Parasitism

Answer 14

One benefits, the other is harmed

Question 15

Mutualism

Answer 15

Both benefit

Question 16

Facultative

Answer 16

Relationship does not have to exist for either species to survive

Question 17

Obligate

Answer 17

Relationship must occur or both will die

Question 18

Commensalism

Answer 18

One benefits, the other is unaffected

Question 19

What are the taxa from most general to most specific?

Answer 19

King Phillip Called Out Fifty Good Soldiers 
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species