Ecology

Question 1

Biotic

Answer 1

Relating to living organisms.

Question 2

Abiotic

Answer 2

Describes the nonliving part of the environment. Including water, rocks, light, and temperature.

Question 3

Population

Answer 3

A group of organisms that live in the same habitat.

Question 4

Community

Answer 4

A particular area or place considered together with its inhabitants.

Question 5

Ecosystem

Answer 5

A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.

Question 6

Herbivore

Answer 6

An organism that only eats plants.

Question 7

Carnivore

Answer 7

An organism that eats animals.

Question 8

Omnivore

Answer 8

An organism that eats plants and animals.

Question 9

Food chain

Answer 9

the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms

Question 10

Food web

Answer 10

a diaphragm that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.

Question 11

Energy pyramid

Answer 11

a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecoststems food chain.

Question 12

Carrying Capacity

Answer 12

the largest population that an environment can support at any given time.

Question 13

Prey

Answer 13

an organism that is killed by another organism

Question 14

Predator

Answer 14

an organism that eats all or part of another organism

Question 15

Mutualism

Answer 15

a relationship between species that benefit both species.

Question 16

Commensalism

Answer 16

a relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

Question 17

Parasitism

Answer 17

a relationship between two species in which one species, the parasite, benefits from the other species, the host, which is harmed.

Question 18

Producers

Answer 18

plants use in sunlight to make food.

Question 19

Decomposers

Answer 19

Bacteria that break down corpses.

Question 20

Desert

Answer 20

a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

Question 21

Tundra

Answer 21

a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen

Question 22

Temperate deciduous forest

Answer 22

a variety of temperate forest ‘dominated’ by trees that lose their leaves each year.

Question 23

Tropical rainforest

Answer 23

Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season

Question 24

Coniferous forest

Answer 24

a forest consisting of evergreen conifers or cone-bearing trees.

Question 25

Savanna

Answer 25

a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.

Question 26

Temperate grassland

Answer 26

Temperate grasslands are defined as places where grasses predominate over trees and shrubs.

Question 27

Biosphere

Answer 27

the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms.