Ecology Flashcards
What is the difference between Weather and Climate?
Weather is day to day changes and limate is year
after year.
What is Ecology?
A. Organism + Enviroment
B. Different groups organisms
C. Biotic VS. Abiotic Factors
What 3 things do an increasing human population demand of its environment?
A. Food
B. Space
C.Energy
What is Ozone composed of?
O3 - 3 oxygen atoms
What is the Greenhouse effect?
Allows Solar energy to penetrate the Atmosphere.
Will not allow heat to escape
Human activities are changing the composition of the atmosphere by relasing large amounts of what gas?
CO2- Carbon Dioxide
What are the levels of Ecological Organization?
a. Biosphere
b. Ecosystems
c. Communities
d. Populations
c. Organism
What is the Biosphere?
All the portions of Earth where life exists.
What is Acclimation?
Process When adjusting to a Change in a Abiotic factor.
The tropical zone receives:
Direct or nearly direct sunlight
What does NOT belong in a possible list of Disturbances.
Natural extinctions
Food chains begin with Autotrophs
True
Each step in a food chain is called a…
Trophic level
Predators belong to which level of a food web?
Third
Each consumer depends on the trophic level below it for energy?
True
Organisms are adapted to function within a specfic ___ of temperature, salinities and rainfall amounts…
Range
The field of Ecology was begun in what year?
1866
Ecology was founded by the German biologist?
Ernst Haeckel
Climate is the result of many different factors. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
The Longitude
The greenhouse effect is the mechanism that ____ our planet from the cold of space.
Insulates
Which of the following factors is consider to be Non-living?
Abiotic Factors
What TWO abiotic factors have the most infulence on the distribution of organisms?
Temperature and Availability of water
Abiotic factors and Biotic factors are dependent upon one another.
True
Abiotic factors are Constant.
False
