Vocabulary

Question 1

Energy Pyramid

Answer 1

An ecological pyramid is a representation designed to show the bio

Question 2

Food chain

Answer 2

A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

Question 3

Food web

Answer 3

System of interlocking and independent food chains

Question 4

Producer

Answer 4

A organism that produces it’s own food

Question 5

Consumer

Answer 5

A organism that feeds on plants or other animals

Question 6

Biome

Answer 6

A large occurring community occupying a major habitat

Question 7

Ecology

Answer 7

The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms

Question 8

Nitrogen Cycle

Answer 8

Series of processes by which nitrogen and it’s compound

Question 9

Water cycle

Answer 9

Processes by which water circulates between the earths oceans

Question 10

Carbon cycle

Answer 10

Processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment

Question 11

Biotic factors

Answer 11

All the living things in the ecosystem

Question 12

Abiotic factors

Answer 12

All the non living things in the ecosystem

Question 13

Predator

Answer 13

An animal that preys on others

Question 14

Prey

Answer 14

An animal that is hunted

Question 15

Succession

Answer 15

Process of change in species structure of an ecological community

Question 16

Levels of organization

Answer 16

The highest level of organization for living things is biosphere

Question 17

Metric system

Answer 17

A system of measurement in which the basic units are the meter

Question 18

Dependent variable

Answer 18

Dependent variable is what is being measured in a experiment

Question 19

Independent variable

Answer 19

A variable that is changed or controlled in a experiment

Question 20

Constant variable

Answer 20

The variable that is not changed

Question 21

Hypothesis

Answer 21

An educated guess