ecology

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

A system that includes all living organisms.

Question 2

Biotic factor

Answer 2

A factor created by a living thing.

Question 3

Abiotic factor

Answer 3

Can determine which species will survive in a given environment.

Question 4

Organism

Answer 4

A living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, and maintain homeostasis.

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other.

Question 6

Population

Answer 6

Is the number of organisms of the same species that live in a particular area.

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

A group of various species in a common location.

Question 8

Habitat

Answer 8

A place where an organism lives

Question 9

Natural selection

Answer 9

Results in the adaptation of an organism to its government

Question 10

Producers / autotrophs

Answer 10

An organism that can get its own food by light or chemical energy.

Question 11

Consumers / heterotrophs

Answer 11

An organism that cannot get its own food, it obtains it food by taking in organic substances.

Question 12

Primary consumer

Answer 12

Are usually herbivores that produce there own food by photosynthesis.

Question 13

Secondary consumer

Answer 13

An organism that feeds on primary consumers.

Question 14

Tertiary consumer

Answer 14

A carnivore that feeds on other carnivores.

Question 15

Herbivores

Answer 15

Animal that eats plants.

Question 16

Carnivores

Answer 16

Animal that eats meat.

Question 17

Omnivores

Answer 17

A animal that eats plants and animals.

Question 18

Decomposers

Answer 18

Organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms.

Question 19

Food chain

Answer 19

Is a linear network of links in a food web.

Question 20

Food web

Answer 20

Is a model depicting the many food chains linked together to show the feeding relationships of organisms.

Question 21

Energy pyramid

Answer 21

Is a model of energy flow in a community.

Question 22

Carbon cycle

Answer 22

The circulation of carbon between living organisms and there surroundings.

Question 23

Nitrogen cycle

Answer 23

Nitrogen that passes from air to soil.

Question 24

Ecological succession

Answer 24

Process by which the structure of a biological community evolves over time.

Question 25

Primary succession

Answer 25

Is one of the two types of biological and ecological succession of plant life.

Question 26

Primary succession

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Occurs in an environment that lacks any vegetation and soil.

Question 27

Secondary succession

Answer 27

Relating to community growth or change that takes place when a habitat is damaged.

Question 28

Pioneer species

Answer 28

A species that are the first to colonize bare earth after a disturbance.

Question 29

Climax community

Answer 29

Final stage of succession.