Ecology Unit test review (Biology)

Question 1

What is ecology?

Answer 1

The study of living things and how they interact with their environment

Question 2

What are abiotic factors?

Answer 2

Not living (physical) factors of an environment (temperature, light, water)

Question 3

What are biotic factors?

Answer 3

Living factors of an environment (plants, animals, bacteria)

Question 4

Define Biosphere

Answer 4

Any part of the Earth that life exists

Question 5

Define Biome

Answer 5

Group of ecosystems with the same climate

Question 6

Define ecosystem

Answer 6

Collection of all the organisms living in a particular place, together with their nonliving environment

Question 7

Define Community

Answer 7

different populations living together in a defined area

Question 8

Define Population

Answer 8

group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

Question 9

Define Species

Answer 9

group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

Question 10

What is a habitat?

Answer 10

natural home/environment of a plant, animal, or organism

Question 11

What is a niche?

Answer 11

Range of physical and biological conditions that an organism lives by and can use those conditions

Question 12

Describe autotroph

Answer 12

organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals to produce its own food (producer)

Question 13

Describe heterotroph

Answer 13

organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes (consumer)

Question 14

Describe decomposer

Answer 14

organism that breaks down dead organic matter and obtains energy

Question 15

Define Biodiversity

Answer 15

The sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere