Ecology

Question 1

What is a herbivore?

Answer 1

An organism that eats plants.

Question 2

What is an omnivore?

Answer 2

An organism that eats both plants and meat.

Question 3

What is a decomposer?

Answer 3

An organism that breaks down and eats things on the ground.

Question 4

What is a carnivore?

Answer 4

An organism that eats meat.

Question 5

Abiotic

Answer 5

Something that is living.

Question 6

Biotic

Answer 6

Something that is not alive.

Question 7

What is a Habitat?

Answer 7

The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

Question 8

What is the energy pyramid?

Answer 8

The way energy is passed on starting with producers.

Question 9

What is biodiversity?

Answer 9

The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

Question 10

What are producers?

Answer 10

Animals that make energy; plants.

Question 11

Wha is a food web?

Answer 11

Multiple food chains showing what eats what.

Question 12

What is a food chain?

Answer 12

The relationship between animals in an area showing what eats what.

Question 13

What is an organism?

Answer 13

Anything living.

Question 14

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 14

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Question 15

What is ecology?

Answer 15

The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

Question 16

What is emigration?

Answer 16

Members of a population leaving.

Question 17

What is growth rate?

Answer 17

How fast a population of one species increases.

Question 18

What is population density?

Answer 18

How many of one species lives in a certain area.

Question 19

What is the death rate?

Answer 19

How fast animals die due to age, predation or other factors.

Question 20

What is a hunter gatherer lifestyle?

Answer 20

It is moving around with animals that you hunt; not farming only hunting and gathering.

Question 21

What is the agricultural revolution?

Answer 21

The sudden surplus of food that allows urbanization.

Question 22

What is life expectancy?

Answer 22

How long something in a population is expected to live.

Question 23

What is dispersion?

Answer 23

The spreading of one species throughout an area.

Question 24

What is a density dependent factor?

Answer 24

Things that control a populations sizzle that can’t be controlled.

Question 25

What is a density independent factor?

Answer 25

Factors that control population that can’t be controlled.

Question 26

What is stability?

Answer 26

How long a population can survive with its resources.

Question 27

What is ecological succession?

Answer 27

The process of change in the species structure over time.

Question 28

What is primary succession?

Answer 28

Occurring in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area left from retreated glacier, is deposited.

Question 29

What is secondary succession?

Answer 29

Community changes which take place on a previously colonized, but disturbed or damaged habitat.

Question 30

What is disturbance?

Answer 30

Temporary change in environmental conditions.

Question 31

What is a pioneer species?

Answer 31

The first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems.

Question 32

What is a climax community?

Answer 32

A stable mature community that has adapted to its enviorment.

Question 33

What is inbreeding?

Answer 33

The mating of closely related individuals.