Ecology

Question 1

Food Chain

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Food Web

Answer 2

Consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.

Question 3

Producers

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Autotraphs

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Consumers

Answer 5

Eat other organisms for food.

Question 6

Omnivore

Answer 6

Animals that eat both plants and animals.

Question 7

Tropic Level

Answer 7

The grouping for organisms in a food web based on their role.

Question 8

Primary Consumer

Answer 8

Are herbivores

Question 9

Herbivores

Answer 9

Eat plants, algae, and other producers.

Question 10

Carnivores

Answer 10

Animals that eat each other.

Question 11

Secondary Consumers

Answer 11

Eat the primary consumers or herbivores.

Question 12

Tertiary Consumers

Answer 12

Eat the secondary consumers.

Question 13

Apex Predator

Answer 13

Top consumer or top predator.

Question 14

Detritovores

Answer 14

Organisms that eat non living plant and animal remains.

Question 15

Scavenger

Answer 15

Organisms that eat non living plant and animal remains.

Question 16

Decomposers

Answer 16

Turn organic wastes, such as decaying plants, into inorganic materials, such as nutrient-rich soil. They complete the cycle of life, returning nutrients to the soil or oceans for use by autotrophs. This starts a whole new series of food chains.

Question 17

Environment

Answer 17

all the living and nonliving things that surround an organism

Question 18

Biosphere

Answer 18

that part of Earth in which life can exist

Question 19

Habitat

Answer 19

the location in which an organism lives

Question 20

Species

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Population

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Community

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Niche

Answer 23

the place or role that an organism has in its habitat

Question 24

Competition

Answer 24

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 25

Biotic

Answer 25

all of the living parts of an ecosystem

Question 26

Abiotic

Answer 26

all of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

Question 27

Predator

Answer 27

an animal that hunts and eats another animal

Question 28

Prey

Answer 28

an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 29

Parasite

Answer 29

an organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and obtains nourishment from the host but provides nothing back to that host

Question 30

Host

Answer 30

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

Question 31

symbiosis

Answer 31

relationship between organisms in which one depends on the other

Question 32

Parasitism

Answer 32

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 33

Mutualism

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Commensalism

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Ecosystem

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Ecology

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Dominant Species

Answer 37

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