Ecology

Question 1

food web

Answer 1

consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem

Question 2

food chain

Answer 2

one possible path that energy and nutrients may take as they move through the ecosystem

Question 3

Trophic

Answer 3

the grouping for organism’s in a food web based on their role

Question 4

auto troph

Answer 4

make their own food and do not depend on any other organism for nutrition.

Question 5

cousumer

Answer 5

animals that eat producers.

Question 6

carnivor

Answer 6

animals that eat other animals

Question 7

omnivores

Answer 7

animals that eat both plants and animals

Question 8

primary consumer

Answer 8

are herbivores,eat plants, algae, and other producers.

Question 9

herbivores

Answer 9

eat plants, algae, and other producers.

Question 10

secondary consumer

Answer 10

they eat the herbivores or primary consumer

Question 11

teriary consumers

Answer 11

eat the secondary consumers.

Question 12

apex predictor

Answer 12

eat other consumers

Question 13

detritivore

Answer 13

organisms that eat nonliving plant and animal remains.

Question 14

scavengers

Answer 14

organisms that eat nonliving plant and animal detritivore

Question 15

decomposers

Answer 15

turn organic wastes, such as decaying plants

Question 16

ecosystem

Answer 16

all of the living and nonliving parts of the environment that interact with each other.

Question 17

Ecology

Answer 17

the study of how organisms interact with their environment and with other organisms.

Question 18

Dominant species

Answer 18

a group of organisms that outnumbers/dominates the other species in the area.

Question 19

enviroment

Answer 19

all the living and nonliving things that surround an organism

Question 20

biosphere

Answer 20

that part of Earth in which life can exist

Question 21

habitat

Answer 21

the location in which an organism lives

Question 22

species

Answer 22

a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can mate with each other to produce offspring

Question 23

population

Answer 23

the group of organisms of the same species living in the same area

Question 24

community

Answer 24

a group of different populations that live together and interact in an environment

Question 25

niche

Answer 25

the place or role that an organism has in its habitat

Question 26

competition

Answer 26

the interaction between organisms or species that use the same resources in which the health of one is negatively affected by the presence of the other

Question 27

biotic

Answer 27

all of the living parts of an ecosystem

Question 28

abiotic

Answer 28

all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

Question 29

predator

Answer 29

an animal that hunts and eats another animal

Question 30

prey

Answer 30

an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 31

parasite

Answer 31

A parasite is an organism that lives on or in another organism. It takes nourishment from its victim. Some parasites do not harm the host organism. Others may actually cause it to die or become weak and sickly.

Question 32

host

Answer 32

organism that is parasitized or subject to attack by one or more parasites

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Question 33

symbiosis

Answer 33

relationship between two species that interact in ways that influence each other’s evolution

Question 34

Parasitism

Answer 34

a certain type of non-mutual relationship found between two different species in which one organism known as the parasite benefits at the expense of the other organism

Question 35

Mutualism

Answer 35

a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives off the other and both organisms benefit

Question 36

Commensalism

Answer 36

a relationship between two species of a plant, animal, or fungus in which one lives with, on, or in the other without damage to either