Ecology

Question 1

Biotic

Answer 1

Living things

Question 2

Abiotic

Answer 2

Non-living things

Question 3

Organism

Answer 3

Individual living thing

Question 4

Species

Answer 4

Group of organisms that are able to breed

Question 5

Population

Answer 5

Members of species that live in the same area

Question 6

Community

Answer 6

All populations living in an area

Question 7

Ecosystem

Answer 7

Community and it’s abiotic factors

Question 8

Biosphere

Answer 8

All ecosystems on earth

Question 9

Habitat

Answer 9

Where an organism lives

Question 10

Niche

Answer 10

Description of role an animal has

Question 11

Symbiotic relationship

Answer 11

Two species living together

Question 12

Parasitic relationship

Answer 12

One benefits other is harmed

Question 13

Mutation relationship

Answer 13

Both benefit

Question 14

Commensalism relationship

Answer 14

One benefited other neither harmed nor benefited

Question 15

Autotroph

Answer 15

Makes it’s own food

Question 16

Heterotrophs

Answer 16

An organism that cannot make its own food

Question 17

Ecology

Answer 17

The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment

Question 18

Herbivore

Answer 18

A consumer that eats only plants

Question 19

Carnivore

Answer 19

A consumer that eats only meat

Question 20

Omnivore

Answer 20

An animal that eats both plants and meat

Question 21

Scavenger

Answer 21

A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms

Question 22

Decomposer

Answer 22

Absorbes nutrients from dead things

Question 23

Food chain

Answer 23

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy

Question 24

Food web

Answer 24

A system of interlocking and inter pendent food chains

Question 25

Trophic level

Answer 25

Each step in a food chain or food web

Question 26

Pyramid of energy

Answer 26

A pyramid that shows the total amount of energy available at each trophic level

Question 27

Pyramid of biomass

Answer 27

Illustrates the relative amount of living material at each trophic level

Question 28

Pyramid of numbers

Answer 28

Shows the number of organisms at each trophic level

Question 29

Chemosynthesis

Answer 29

Process in which chemical energy is used to make food