Ecology

Question 1

What are ways carbon is taken out of the atmosphere?

Answer 1

Photosynthesis by plants and algae

Question 2

What are ways carbon enters the atmosphere?

Answer 2

Factories, soil and organisms and animal, aquatic, and plant respiration.

Question 3

Which living thing fix nitrogen?

Answer 3

Bacteria

Question 4

Makes their own food

Answer 4

Producers

Question 5

Cannot make their own food

Answer 5

Consumers

Question 6

Eats only plants

Answer 6

Herbivores

Question 7

Eats only meat/animals

Answer 7

Carnivores

Question 8

Eats both plants and animals

Answer 8

Omnivores

Question 9

East’s waste and returns nutrients back to soil

Answer 9

Decomposers

Question 10

Where does all energy come from?

Answer 10

The Sun

Question 11

What do the arrows represent in a food chain?

Answer 11

Energy flow

Question 12

In a food pyramid, which level gets the most amount of energy?

Answer 12

The first level

Question 13

How much energy is passed from one trophic level tp the next?

Answer 13

10%

Question 14

What is Mutualism?

Answer 14

Both organisms benefit

Question 15

What is commensalism?

Answer 15

One organism benefits and the other is not affected

Question 16

What is parasitism?

Answer 16

One organism benefits and the other is harmed

Question 17

Climax community

Answer 17

A mature stable community that can still change over time due to long term climate change or introduction of nonnative species

Question 18

Secondary succession

Answer 18

A process started by an event - forest fire, harvesting hurricane etc. - that destroys most of the ecosystem leave behind soil that contain seed spores or plant parts

Question 19

Primary succession

Answer 19

Changes in the community begin on surfaces where no soil exists

Question 20

Ecological succession

Answer 20

A series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time

Question 21

Pioneer species

Answer 21

The first species to populate an area