Ecology

Question 0

What is the biosphere?

Answer 0

Place where life exists on earth

The highest level of organization

Question 1

What is the organization of the earth’s systems?

Answer 1

(6) from largest to smallest
Biosphere
Biome
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Organism

Question 2

What is a community?

Answer 2

Consists of living things that interact with non Living things

Question 3

What is the population?

Answer 3

Group of individuals in the same species hat interbread, produce fertile offspring, and compete with each other

Question 4

What is the niche?

Answer 4

The role a species plays in a community; it’s total way of life

Question 5

What is a individual?

Answer 5

An organism

Question 6

What is the carrying capacity?

Answer 6

The number of individuals that can be sustained by a habitat

Question 7

What is symbiosis?

Answer 7

2 species living together and there are three types

Question 8

What is the food chain?

Answer 8

A simple model that shows one path of energy

Question 9

What is the food web?

Answer 9

An expanded more complete version of the food chain, showing all possible energy paths

Question 10

What is the energy pyramid?

Answer 10

A graphical model of energy flow in a community
At the top is the tertiary consumer
Then the secondary consumer
The third is primary consumer
The bottom is producer

Question 11

What is predation?

Answer 11

When a predator hunts its prey for food

Question 12

How do you interpret human population growth?

Answer 12

The horizontal axis represents time, the vertical axis shows the total world population size

A population that grows at a constant rate is a straight line

Question 13

15.) What are the roles of the producers,consumers, and decomposers in a community?

Answer 13

Producers: make their own food,
Consumers:ingest food
Decomposers:break down the food

Question 14

What is the biomass?

Answer 14

The amount of living matter on the planet

Question 15

What is the habitat?

Answer 15

The place in which the organism lives out its life

Question 16

What are the 3 main types of feeding relationships?

Answer 16

1. Producer–consumer
2. predator–prey
3. Parasite–host

Question 16

What are the three types of symbiosis?

Answer 16

1. Commensalism
2. Parasitism
3. Mutualism

Question 17

What are tropic levels?

Answer 17

Each link in a food chain is known as a feeding step

The tropic levels represent a feeding step in the transfer of energy and matter in an ecosystem

Question 18

What’s ecology?

Answer 18

The scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment focusing on energy transfer

Question 19

Ecology is the science of?

Answer 19

Relations ships

Question 20

What are the two factors that the environment is made up of?

Answer 20

Biotic–all living organisms inhabiting the earth

Abiotic–no living parts of the environment (temp, soil, light)

Question 21

What is an organism?

Answer 21

Any unicellular or multicellular form exhibiting all of the characteristics of life, an individual
The lowest level of organization

Question 23

14.)What info is missing from the biological community (Graph)

Answer 23

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Question 25

16.) What do the (graphs) tell us about the countries themselves?

Answer 25

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Question 26

17.) What are the possible reasons for the DIFFERENCES between the TWO (graphs)?

Answer 26

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