Chapter Two Vocab Flashcards
Biosphere
Supports all living things
Ecology
Study of the interactions between an organism and it’s environment
What is high in the atmosphere and all the way down into the deep oceans?
The biosphere
No living parts of the organisms environment
Abiotic factors
Examples of abiotic factors:
Temperature, air
Living organisms that inhabit an environment (living parts of an organism)
Biotic Factors
Four levels:
Organisms, Population, Community, and Ecosystems
Populations-
Group of organisms that interbreed and live in same area
True or false:
No species live independently
Made up of interacting populations in a certain place and a certain time-
Biological community
Interacting populations in a biological community and the communities abiotic factors
Ecosystems
Two major ecosystems:
Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
Terrestrial is located where?
On land
Aquatic is located where?
Fresh and saltwater
Habitat-
Where an organism lives out its life
True or false:
Habitats can Change and disappear
Strategies and adaptations a species uses in its environment -
Niche.
Symbiosis-
Living together
Predator is a type of what?
Consumer
Three types of symbiosis :
1) Mutualism , 2) commensalism , 3) Parasitism
Mutualism-
Where both species are both benefited
Commensalism-
Where one species is benefited and the other is neither harmed nor benefitted
Parasitism -
Where one species is benefited and the other one is harmed
Heterotrophs-
Can’t make its own food
