Deck 1

Question 1

What is ecology?

Answer 1

The study of plants and animals and the environment that they live in.

Question 2

What is the biosphere?

Answer 2

the part of the earth that contains life

Question 3

Give an example of something that is biotic/abiotic

Answer 3

Biotic: plants abiotic: minerals

Question 4

what is flora?

Answer 4

plants in an ecosystem

Question 5

What is fauna?

Answer 5

Animals in an ecosystem

Question 6

What factor has the greatest effect on the plants and animals that live in a particular ecosystem?

Answer 6

climate

Question 7

K

Answer 7

K

Question 8

What is a niche?

Answer 8

The job or role that a particular organism performs

Question 9

Name 2 factors that determine an animal’s niche

Answer 9

by what it eats and what eats it

Question 10

What is a population?

Answer 10

the number of species in a given area

Question 11

What is a community?

Answer 11

all the populations living together in a given area

Question 12

What are 2 different kinds of niches an animal can have?

Answer 12

the role it plays in a community and the role it plays in its family

Question 13

What is a food chain?

Answer 13

A series of organisms in the order that they feed on one another

Question 14

What is a producer?

Answer 14

something that produces its own food and energy (plants)

Question 15

What is a comsumer?

Answer 15

an organism that doesn’t produce its own food but eats plants and animals

Question 16

What is a food web?

Answer 16

the interactions among multiple food chains

Question 17

List 2 carnivores

Answer 17

Fox/wolf

Question 18

list 2 herbivores

Answer 18

Deer/rabits

Question 19

list 2 omnivores

Answer 19

bear/skunk

Question 20

is a black bear a first or second order consumer?

Answer 20

second consumer (depends on what it eats)

Question 21

Is a man an herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore?

Answer 21

omnivore (depends, vegan)

Question 22

Explain how a food chain shows energy flow

Answer 22

plant (which gets energy from the sun) is eaten by an animal then that is eaten by another animal

Question 23

What are organisms called that eat dead plants and animals?

Answer 23

scavengers

Question 24

Name 2 different animals that eat dead plants or animals

Answer 24

vultures/hyenas

Question 25

What types of organisms are at the end of every food chain?

Answer 25

decomposers

Question 26

Name 2 common organisms responsible for decomposition

Answer 26

worms/fungi

Question 27

Why is decomposition so important?

Answer 27

so that the animals get broken down to give nutrients to the soil

Question 28

what physical law makes decomposition necessary?

Answer 28

the law of conservation of mass

Question 29

What is symbiosis?

Answer 29

any relationship between 2 different species living in close connection

Question 30

What is mutualism?

Answer 30

a relationship where both organisms are benefited

Question 31

What happens to each species in a parasitic relationship?

Answer 31

one benefits while the other is harmed

Question 32

Which species benefits in commensalism?

Answer 32

the guest species (the other is not benefited or harmed)

Question 33

What is competition among species?

Answer 33

when 2 different species both eat the same food, they will compete for the limited resources in the area

Question 34

What is the name of a relationship in which neither species benefits not is harmed?

Answer 34

neutralism

Question 35

Why is competition considered harmful for both species?

Answer 35

b/c if populations becomes 2 large, there is not enough food for everyone. (they die or fail to reproduce)