Ecology

Question 1

What is the definition of ecology

Answer 1

The study of the living world and how this living world intersects with the environment.

Question 2

What is the definition of organism

Answer 2

a living thing that has an organized structure, can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and maintain homeostasis.

Question 3

What is the definition of a population

Answer 3

a group of organisms of the same species, all living in the same area and interacting with each other.

Question 4

What is the definition of a community

Answer 4

an interacting group of carious species in a common location

Question 4

What is the definition of an ecosystem

Answer 4

is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape work together to form a bubble of life

Question 5

What is the definition of a habitat

Answer 5

a place where an organism makes its home. this must meet all the environmental conditions an organism needs to survive.

Question 6

What is the definition of a biome

Answer 6

a biogeographical unit consisting of a community that has formed in response to the physical environment in which they are found and shared regional climate. or is a broader term than habitat and can comprise a verity of habitats,

Question 7

What is the definition of species

Answer 7

a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring

Question 8

Give the definition of biotic

Answer 8

they are living factors in the environment

Question 9

Give 3 biotic examples

Answer 9

Birds
Plants
Human

Question 10

Give the definition of abiotic

Answer 10

they are non-living factors in the environment

Question 11

Give the definition of a producer

Answer 11

organisms that can make their own food in an ecosystem

Question 12

Give the definition of an autotroph

Answer 12

an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide

Question 13

Give the definition of a grazer

Answer 13

a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on low growing plants or other multicellular organisms

Question 14

Give the definition of a browser

Answer 14

a herbivore feeds on leaves, soft shoots, fruits of high growing generally woody plants

Question 14

Give the definition of a consumer

Answer 14

is a living creature that eats organisms from a different population

Question 15

Give the definition of a heterotroph

Answer 15

an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients

Question 16

Give the definition of an herbivore

Answer 16

an organism that mostly feeds on plants

Question 17

Give the definition of a carnivore

Answer 17

an organism that eats mostly meat or flesh

Question 18

Give the definition if a scavenger

Answer 18

an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass

Question 19

Give the definition of an insectivore

Answer 19

a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects

Question 20

How do food chains always begin

Answer 20

autotroph or producer

Question 20

What are tropic levels

Answer 20

feeding levels in a food chain

Question 21

Give the definition of of a food chain

Answer 21

A food chain is a series of organisms in an ecosystem in which each organism eats the one below it and is consumed by the one above it

Question 21

How does energy flow in a food chain

Answer 21

producer
primary consumer
secondary consumer
tertiary consumer

Question 22

Name all the food pyramid levels

Answer 22

1st Tropic level (Producer)
2nd Tropic level (Primary consumers)
3rd tropic level (Secondary consumers)
4th Tropic level (Tertiary consumers)
5th tropic level (Apex predators)

Question 23

What are the rules to drawing a food chain/ web

Answer 23

1) No pictures
2) Do not show the sun
3) Do not show decomposers unless told to
4) The arrows go in the direction the energy is flowing
5) They can be drawn horizontally or vertically

Question 24

Give the definition of a food web

Answer 24

a food web shows a visual representation of the feeding relationships in an ecosystem, it is multidimensional

Question 25

What are the threats to healthy grassland ecosystems