Science 7

Question 1

Ecologist

Answer 1

An expert or student of ecology

Question 2

Niche

Answer 2

An organisms purpose

Question 3

Ecosystem

Answer 3

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Question 4

Biotic factors

Answer 4

A living thing, an animal or a plant, that influences or effects an ecosystem

Question 5

Abiotic

Answer 5

Living organisms

Question 6

Tolerance

Answer 6

Each organism has a tolerance range for each factor

Question 7

Optimum range

Answer 7

Best suited environment

Question 8

Limiting factor

Answer 8

Prevent population from growing any larger (threatens organisms tolerance/survival

Question 9

Carrying capacity

Answer 9

Maximum number of organisms

Question 10

Biodiversity

Answer 10

Number of different species

Question 11

Biogeochemical cycles

Answer 11

The movement of chemicals through both the earth and living things

Question 12

Hydrologic

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Begins with water evaporation, as moist air lifts, water cools.

Question 13

Atmospheric cycles

Answer 13

Carbon cycle is the Biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is changed by the biosphere

Question 14

Sedimentary cycles

Answer 14

Include iron, calcium, phosphorus and more.

Question 15

Levels of ecology

Answer 15

Biosphere > biome > ecosystem > community > population > organism —

Question 16

Ecology

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Biosphere

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Regions of the surface, atmosphere and hydrosphere of the earth

Question 18

Atmosphere

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Air

Question 19

Lithosphere

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Land

Question 20

Hydrosphere

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Water

Question 21

Biome

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Categories of the biome based on dominant plant and animal life

Question 22

Community

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All living things in a ecosystem

Question 23

Population

Answer 23

On species in an ecosystem

Question 24

Individual

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Any single organism

Question 25

Producer

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Organism that makes its own food

Question 26

Phototroph

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Convert light into food

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Chemotroph

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Use chemicals to produce food

Question 28

Consumer

Answer 28

Cannot produce food

Question 29

Decomposer

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Feed on dead plants and animals

Question 30

Food chain

Answer 30

A list starting with producers and arranged in order of what eats what

Question 31

Food web

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Show the feeding relationship between organisms in the ecosystem

Question 32

Symbiosis

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When relationships develop between organisms

Question 33

Mutualism

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Symbiosis where both organisms benefit

Question 34

Commensalism

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Symbiosis where one organism benefits

Question 35

Parasitism

Answer 35

When one organism steals nutrients from another