CHAPTER 1-4

Question 0

What is homeostasis?

Answer 0

Balance of our internal environment

Question 1

What are the 6 characteristics of living things ?

Answer 1

Reproduction, growth, development, orderly structure, adaptation, evolution

Question 2

What is the scientific method?

Answer 2

-Problem/question
-Research
-Hypothesis
-Experiment
.Collect data
-Analyze data
-conclusions

Question 3

What is biology?

Answer 3

The study of living things

Question 4

What is ecology?

Answer 4

How organisms interact with their environment

Question 5

What is the difference between quantitative and descriptive methods of observation?

Answer 5

Quant.= numbers

Descriptive=observation

Question 6

What part of the planet supports living things?

Answer 6

Biosphere

Question 7

What are abiotic factors and give examples

Answer 7

Nonliving components in the biosphere- rocks, air, soil, temperature

Question 8

What are biotic factors and give examples

Answer 8

Living components of the biosphere-animals, plants

Question 9

What are the ecological levels of organization?

Answer 9

Organisms 
Population
Community 
Ecosystem 
Biosphere

Question 10

Where an organism lives is its_____

Answer 10

Habitat

Question 11

What is a niche?

Answer 11

Job or role an organism has in its ecosystem

Question 12

What is symbiosis?

Answer 12

Relationship between two different species where at least one organism benefits

Question 13

What is commensalism ?

Answer 13

One species benefits, one is neither harmed nor benefitted

Question 14

What is mutualism?

Answer 14

Both species benefit

Question 15

What is Parasitism ?

Answer 15

One benefits and the other is harmed

Question 16

What are producers?

Answer 16

Plants, produce their own energy

Question 17

What are consumers?

Answer 17

Eat producers and other consumers, animals

Question 18

What are the 5 different types of consumers?

Answer 18

Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers, decomposers

Question 19

What are other names for consumers and producers?

Answer 19

Heterotrophs and autotrophs

Question 20

What are the three different ecology pyramids?

Answer 20

Pyramid of numbers, energy, biomass

Question 21

What is a Trophic level?

Answer 21

Each stage in the ecological pyramids

Question 22

Which pyramid shows amount of organisms in each Trophic level?

Answer 22

Numbers

Question 23

Which pyramid shows the measurements in kg?

Answer 23

Pyramid of biomass

Question 24

Which pyramid shows the % of energy in each Trophic level?

Answer 24

Energy

Question 25

What are examples of limiting factors?

Answer 25

Weather, food, water, shelter

Question 26

What's range of tolerance?

Answer 26

Ability of an organism to withstand fluctuations in Biotic and abiotic factors

Question 27

What is the difference between a food chain and web?

Answer 27

Food web: ALL of the food relationships in an ecosystem Food chain: autotrophs to heterotrophs E.g. - plant-> grasshopper-> bird

Question 28

What is an S shaped growth graph?

Answer 28

Reached climax community

Question 28

What is a J shaped growth graph?

Answer 28

Continually growing

Question 29

Linear growth is _____ growth

Answer 29

Steady

Question 30

What is the ability to cause change?

Answer 30

Energy

Question 31

What is the gradual change in species through adaptations over time?

Answer 31

Evolution

Question 32

What is an inherited behavior that enables an organism to respond to environmental factors?

Answer 32

Adaptation