wildlife biology

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

Large community of living organisms in a particular area

Question 2

Biotic Factor

Answer 2

living organisms in an ecosystem

Question 3

Abiotic Factor

Answer 3

non living organisms in an ecosystem

Question 4

Organism

Answer 4

a single animal, plant, or single celled life form

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

a group of living organisms that are appropriate sexes

Question 6

Population

Answer 6

Same species that live in a particular area

Question 7

Community

Answer 7

Various species in a common area

Question 8

Habitat

Answer 8

Where an organism or community lives

Question 9

Natural Selection

Answer 9

heritable traits are passed down for survival

Question 10

Evolution

Answer 10

Enhance survival skills in tough conditions

Question 11

Producers/Autotroph

Answer 11

Produce energy itself

Question 12

Consumers/Heterotrophs

Answer 12

organisms that consume energy

Question 13

Primary Consumers

Answer 13

eats the producer/plants

Question 14

Secondary Consumers

Answer 14

eats the primary consumer

Question 15

Tertiary Consumers

Answer 15

feeds only on secondary consumer

Question 16

Herbivores

Answer 16

eats only plants

Question 17

Carnivores

Answer 17

eats only meat

Question 18

Omnivores

Answer 18

eats both plants and meat

Question 19

Decomposers

Answer 19

breaks down dead or decaying organisms

Question 20

Food Chain

Answer 20

starting from producer ending at apex predator

Question 21

Food Web

Answer 21

interconnecting food chains in an ecological community

Question 22

Energy Pyramid

Answer 22

energy flow in a community

Question 23

Carbon cycle

Answer 23

including photosynthesis, decomposition, and respiration

Question 24

nitrogen cycle

Answer 24

a continuous series of natural processes by which nitrogen passes successively from air to soil to organisms and back to air or soil

Question 25

ecological succession

Answer 25

the process by which the structure of a biological community evolves over time

Question 26

Primary succession

Answer 26

the soil is incapable of sustaining life

Question 27

secondary succession

Answer 27

started by an event

Question 28

pioneer species

Answer 28

the first to colonize previously bio diverse steady-state ecosystems

Question 29

climax community

Answer 29

plants, animals, and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession in the development of vegetation in an area over time, have reached a steady state.