Week 1

Question 1

What is the smallest unit that is fully alive? (I.e. can perform the functions of life)

Answer 1

Cell

Question 2

What is a biome?

Answer 2

A large ecosystem

Question 3

Mutualism

Answer 3

Both species benefit from the interactions

Question 4

Commensalism

Answer 4

One species benefits while the other is seemingly unaffected

Question 5

What does the term “Niches” mean

Answer 5

Species allow to live side by side & use slightly different resources or obtain it from similar spots/different times

Question 6

Keystone species

Answer 6

A species that “holds it up”

Question 7

What does the prefix “eco” mean

Answer 7

House

Question 8

What does the prefix “enviro”

Answer 8

To surround

Question 9

Organismic ecologists

Answer 9

Learns everything abt a particular kind of organism

Question 10

Population ecologists

Answer 10

Study population numbers, distributions, & how & why populations fluctuate overtime

Question 11

Community ecologist

Answer 11

Study how different species interact

Question 12

Ecosystem-focused ecologists

Answer 12

Study abiotic factors more than living things

Question 13

Landscape ecologists

Answer 13

Focus on large-scale patterns

Question 14

Interspecies competition

Answer 14

Members of two or more different species require the same resource

Question 15

Intraspecific

Answer 15

interactions among members of the same species

Question 16

Name levels , smallest to biggest

Answer 16

Atom, molecule, macromolecule, virus, organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere

Question 17

Tell me about viruses

Answer 17

They are small, consist of proteins & lipids, and are not alive & cannot replicate

Question 18

Tell me about molecules

Answer 18

All cell parts are made of molecules
Molecules are made of atoms

Question 19

Biomes

Answer 19

Huge ecosystem

Question 20

What is the smallest unit of life

Answer 20

A cell

Question 21

Community

Answer 21

All living organisms of different species interact

Question 22

Population

Answer 22

One species living in one place or interacting to reproduce

Question 23

Organism

Answer 23

One entity

Question 24

Scientific law

Answer 24

Describe what happens

Question 25

Scientific theory

Answer 25

Explains why or how it happens

Question 26

Lets say something is growing on a tree but its not hurting it what is it called

Answer 26

Commensal

Question 27

In biology the word METABOLIC or METABOLISM refers to..

Answer 27

Any and all of the chemical reactions in a cell/organism