Ecology TEST Flashcards
What is the term for when one organism benefits and the other is unaffected?
Commensalism
What is the term for all the places on earth with life on it?
Biosphere
What is the term for where you can find a particular organism?
Population range
Which is a better representation: Food Chain or Food Web?
The Food Web will give you more details
more accurate and shows how somethings are eaten by many different things.
What is the term for when both organisms benefit from a relationship?
Mutualism
When population growth is unlimited, what term is used to describe it?
Exponential
Bacteria, animals and plants are considered ______________
biotic factor
What is the term for when one organism benefits and the other is hurt?
Parasitism
If Plankton gets energy from the sun - - Sea Cattle eats the plant on and then the cattle get served as Krabby Patties to Fred the fish - - what percentage of the original energy from the plankton is Fred the fish receiving?
1%
What is the term for how organisms spread themselves out (Clumped or uniform)
spatial distribution
What is the term for the ecosystem + climate?
Biome
What do we call an organism’s role in its environment?
Niche
The idea of Tolerance means that humans would prefer to live in what?
Mild environments
How much energy is lost after each step in a food chain?
90%
Be able to identify a picture of a food chain and the picture of a food web.
Ask Mrs. Krumpelman for help
What is the term for how many of a particular organism is in one area?
Population density
What is the term for the biotic and abiotic factors in an area?
Ecosystem
What is the term for the multiple species interacting in an area?
Community
Can plants be considered prey? (True or False)
True
What is the general term for two organisms living and interacting together?
Symbiosis
What is the term for a grouping of organisms of the same species?
Population
What is the ultimate source of energy for all living things?
The Sun
What is the term for an individual?
Organism
What is MORE necessary in an environment?
Autotrophs
What happens in area of high population density?
disease spreads more quickly
FIll in
Populations will grow until they reach ________________ ________ where the population will remain for a while.
Carrying Capacity
