E3 Ecology

Question 1

What is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment?

Answer 1

Ecology

Question 2

What is made up of all the living organisms that inhabit in a particular area?

Answer 2

Community

Question 3

What is a community of species and the physical environment that it interacts with?

Answer 3

Ecosystem

Question 4

What is the number, identity, and relative abundance of species in a community?

Answer 4

Community structure

Question 5

Pathway along which food energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.

Answer 5

Food chain

Question 6

What is how many times the chemical energy in food has passed from “eaten” to
eater?

Answer 6

trophic level

Question 7

What percent of biomass in one trophic level gets incorporated into the biomass of the next
trophic level?

Answer 7

10%

Question 8

Diversity of a community is made up of two factors:

Answer 8

1. Species richness
2. Relative abundance

Question 9

The number of species present is called

Answer 9

species richness

Question 10

what proportion of the community each species make up

Answer 10

Relative abundance