Vocabulary on Ecosystems

Question 1

Biosphere

Answer 1

The parts of Earth and the surronding atmosphere and the living things thats called Earths biosphere.

Question 2

Ecosystem

Answer 2

A group of organisms that live in an area at one time and other non-living parts of the enviorment/habitat.

Question 3

Enology

Answer 3

The study of all ecosystems and living things body in that specific area

Question 4

Biotic Factors

Answer 4

The living things in an ecosystem.
(EX.Plants and animals)

Question 5

Abiotic Factors

Answer 5

The non-living things in an ecosystem
(EX. soil,climate, or water)

Question 6

Community

Answer 6

All the populations of diffrent species that live toghether in the same area at the same time.

Question 7

Population

Answer 7

All organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time

Question 8

Species

Answer 8

Is a group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offsprings

Question 9

Biotic potential

Answer 9

The potential growth of a population if it could grow in perfect conditions with no limiting factors

Question 10

Limiting factors

Answer 10

Its anything that restricts the size of a population
(EX. supplies,temputure, preadators,disease’s, and natural disasters such as floods)

Question 11

Competetion

Answer 11

The demand for resources that are in short supply in a community.
(EX.Food,water, and shelter)

Question 12

Threatened Species

Answer 12

A species with this lable is at risk but not yet endangered

Question 13

Endangered Species

Answer 13

Species with this lable are at risk for exctinction.

Question 14

Extinct Species

Answer 14

Species with this label have died out and have no living indivduals of their kind left.

Question 15

Capture-mark and release method

Answer 15

The animals are captured and sedated (drugged so they can relax) then Radio collars are placed on the animals. Released in the wild where the colar tracks their movements and their actvites. (used for population sizes method)

Question 16

Carrying Capacity

Answer 16

Its the largest number of indivudals of one species that an enviroment can support.
(EX. How many fish can the coral reef sustain)
A good word for the Carrying Capacity is the LIMIT of how much an enviroment can hold.

Question 17

Population density

Answer 17

Is the size of a population
compared to the amount of space available.

Question 18

Sample count method

Answer 18

Biologists can count the number of oak
trees in a specific area of the forest, e.g.
1km2. Then, you simply multiply the number of
oak trees in that area by the total area of
the forest.
(EX. You find 60 oak trees withing that 1km. If the total area of the forst is 20km you do 60x20 = 1200 oak tress)

Question 19

Overpopulation

Answer 19

Occurs when the size of a
population becomes larger than the carrying
capacity of its ecosystem.

Question 20

Atmosphere

Answer 20

The layer of gasses that surrond Earth

Question 21

Birthrate

Answer 21

Is the number of offspring produced over a givine time period.

Question 22

Deathrate

Answer 22

Is the number of individuals that die over the same time period.

Question 23

Migration

Answer 23

Is the instinctive seasonal movement of a population of organisms from one place to another.

Question 24

Expotential Growth

Answer 24

A population in ideal (perfect) conditons with unlimited resources. The larger a population gets the faster it starts to grow.

Question 25

Extinct

Answer 25

Population that decreases in size/numbers until they dissaper

Question 26

Threatended

Answer 26

A specice that is at risk but not yet an endagered specie

Question 27

Endangered

Answer 27

A specie that is at the risk of going/being extinct.

Question 28

Niche

Answer 28

Is what a species does in its habitat to survive.

Question 29

Producers

Answer 29

Are orgnaisms that get energy from the enviroment, such as sunlight, and make their own food.

Question 30

Consumer

Answer 30

Are organisms that get enegry by eating other orgnaisms.

Question 31

Herbivores

Answer 31

Are organisms that eat plants.

Question 32

Omnivorerse

Answer 32

Are organisms that eat both meat and plants

Question 33

Carnivores

Answer 33

Are organisms that eat only meat

Question 34

Detrivores

Answer 34

Are orgnaisms that get energy by feeding off dead orgnaisms.

Question 35

Food chain

Answer 35

Food chains show the flow of energy through a community

Question 36

Food Web

Answer 36

Food webs show many food chains in a community and how they overlap

Question 37

Predators

Answer 37

Are orgnaisms that hunt other animals down for food.

Question 38

Prey

Answer 38

Are the organisms that get hunted down for food/energy.

Question 39

Prey-Predator relationship

Answer 39

This relationship includes the predator feasting on the prey for energy.

Question 40

Cooperative realtionship

Answer 40

This is when a population or species work toghether for survival.

Question 41

Symbiosis relationship

Answer 41

This relationship is when two species are in a close, long-term relationship that usualy involves an exchange of food or energy.

Question 42

Mutalism

Answer 42

A symbiotic relationship in which both partners benfit from.

Question 43

Commensalism

Answer 43

A symbiotic relationship that benfits one species but does not harm or benfit the other.