Ecology

Question 1

Organism

Answer 1

Individual is a single living organism

Question 2

Population

Answer 2

Group of organism of the same species that live in the same area

Question 3

Community

Answer 3

All population of different species interacting with each other on an ecosystem

Question 4

Habitat

Answer 4

Is a place where organism live

Question 5

Ecosystem

Answer 5

Community of organism and their environment interacting together

Question 6

Biosphere

Answer 6

The part of earth that contains all ecosystem

Question 7

Abiotic factor

Answer 7

Light intensity

Temperature

pH in soil

Moisture/ water availability

Air

Humidity

Question 8

Biotic

Answer 8

Prey

Competitors

Predators

Parasites

Disease

Question 9

Limiting factors of population growth

Answer 9

• predators, competition , disease
• temperature change, nutrients level

Question 10

Competition

Answer 10

Organism of two species use the limited resources and have a negative impact to each other

-/- both organism

Question 11

Predation

Answer 11

A member of one specie predator eats all or part of the body of a member of another species prey

(+/-)

Question 12

Mutualism

Answer 12

(+/+) long term close association between two species in which two species in which both partners benefits

Question 13

Parasitism

Answer 13

(+/-) (parasite/host) close association between two species in which one benefits and the other is harmed

Interaction in which one organism, the parasite derives its nourishment from another organism it’s host which is harmed in the process

Question 14

Producer

Answer 14

An organism that makes it own organism nutrients through photosynthesis

Question 15

Consumer

Answer 15

An organism that gets its energy by feeding on other organism

Question 16

Herbivores

Answer 16

An organism that gets it energy by eating plants

Question 17

Carnivores

Answer 17

An animals that gets its energy by eating other animals

Question 18

Decomposer

Answer 18

An organism that gets its energy from dead or waste organic material

Question 19

Biomass

Answer 19

The total mass of all organism in a habitat

Sun is principal source of energy input to biological system

Question 20

Pyramid energy

Answer 20

Only the energy that is made into new cells remains with the organism to be passsed on

Even then some of this energy doesn’t get consumed
But energy is still stored in these parts and so it doesn’t get passed on

Question 21

Majority of the energy an organism receives get lost

Answer 21

Making waste product

As movement

As heat

As un digested waste