ecology

Question 1

food webs

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 levels

Answer 3

categories of organisms in food webs

Question 4

producers

Answer 4

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

Question 5

autotrophs

Answer 5

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

Question 6

consumers

Answer 6

animals that eat producers.

Question 7

carnivores

Answer 7

animals that eat other animals)

Question 8

omnivores

Answer 8

animals that eat other animals and plants

Question 9

Primary consumers

Answer 9

eat plants, algae, and other producers

Question 10

Herbivores

Answer 10

eat plants, algae, and other producers

Question 11

Secondary consumers

Answer 11

eat herbivores.

Question 12

Tertiary consumers

Answer 12

eat the secondary consumers.

Question 13

apex predators

Answer 13

eat other consumers.

Question 14

Detritivores

Answer 14

are organisms that eat nonliving plant and animal remains.

Question 15

Decomposers

Answer 15

turn organic wastes, such as decaying plants, into inorganic materials, such as nutrient-rich soil

Question 16

Ecosystem

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Ecology

Answer 17

how organisms interact with their environment and with other organisms.

Question 18

Dominant species

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organisms that outnumbers/dominates the other species in the area.

Question 19

Environment

Answer 19

the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
“survival in an often hostile environment”

Question 20

biosphere

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the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.

Question 21

Habitat

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A habitat is a place where an organism makes its home

Question 22

Species

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a class of things of the same kind and with the same name :

Question 23

Population

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the branch of ecology that works to understand the patterns and processes of change over time or space for populations of a single species

Question 24

Community

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a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time

Question 25

Niche

Answer 25

match of a species to a specific environmental condition

Question 26

Competition

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the struggle between two organisms for the same resources within an environment

Question 27

Biotic

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Biotic factors are living things within an ecosystem; such as plants, animals, and bacteria,

Question 28

Abiotic

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a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.

Question 29

Predator

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biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

Question 30

Prey

Answer 30

animals eaten by other animals.

Question 31

Parasite

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the study of intra- and interspecific interactions and environmental influences that determine the behaviour, abundance, spatial distribution and diversity of parasites

Question 32

Host

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a unique type of ecosystem that can directly and indirectly compete with the species that live within it because it is simultaneously the environment, resource, and predator for parasites

Question 33

Symbiosis

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is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

Question 34

Parasitism

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Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other

Question 35

Mutualism

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a type of symbiotic relationship where all species involved benefit from their interactions.

Question 36

Commensalism

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is a long-term biological interaction in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed