Ecology

Question 1

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

A living thing in an ecosystem that affects its surroundings

Answer 2

Biotic Factor

Question 3

A nonliving thing in an ecosystem that affects its surroundings

Answer 3

Abiotic Factor

Question 4

An individual plant, animal, or single-celled life form

living thing, being

Answer 4

Organism

Question 5

Grouping of specific animal ex. Homo Sapiens

Answer 5

Species

Question 6

The amount of inhabitants of a specific species in a certain area

Answer 6

Population

Question 7

Group of interdependent organisms living together in an area

Answer 7

Community

Question 8

Natural home of a plant, animal, or other organism

Answer 8

Habitat

Question 9

Process where those best equipped to their environment and possible changes in that environment will survive, while those who aren’t will not (survival of the fittest)

Answer 9

Natural Selection

Question 10

Process where organisms changed over time to adapt to their surroundings

Answer 10

Evolution

Question 11

Organism that makes its own food by way of photosynthesis

Answer 11

Producer

Question 12

Organism that gets food by consuming other organisms

Answer 12

Consumer

Question 13

Consumers that are primarily herbivores

Answer 13

Primary Consumers

Question 14

Consumers that eat primary consumers; can be carnivores or omnivores

Answer 14

Secondary Consumers

Question 15

Consumer at the top of the food chain that preys on secondary consumers

Answer 15

Tertiary Consumers

Question 16

Consumers that only eat meat

Answer 16

Carnivores

Question 17

Consumers that eat meat and plants

Answer 17

Omnivores

Question 18

Consumers that only eat plants

Answer 18

Herbivores

Question 19

Organism that decomposes organic material

Answer 19

Decomposer

Question 20

Series of organisms that are dependent on the organism before them for food

Answer 20

Food Chain

Question 21

System of combined food chains in an ecosystem

Answer 21

Food Web

Question 22

Shows how energy flows throughout an ecosystem from the bottom (producers) to the top (tertiary consumers)

Answer 22

Energy Pyramid

Question 23

Processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment

Answer 23

Carbon Cycle

Question 24

Processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment

Answer 24

Nitrogen Cycle

Question 25

Ecological succession taking place after the opening of a barren and and uninhabited environment

Answer 25

Primary Succession

Question 26

Event that reduces an established ecosystem into just a collection of a few species

Answer 26

Secondary Succession

Question 27

Species which are the first to colonize previously damaged or disrupted ecosystems

Answer 27

Pioneer Species

Question 28

Community in the final stage of succession, remaining mostly unchanged until destroyed by a disaster such as a fire or human interference

Answer 28

Climax Community

Question 29

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Answer 29

Ecosystem