Ecological Community

Question 1

Characteristics of life

Question 2

Biotic

Answer 2

Something living that once living

Question 3

Abiotic

Answer 3

Something not living

Question 4

10% Rule

Answer 4

Each level can give the next level 10% energy.

Question 5

Predator-Prey Cycle

Answer 5

Pray go up and predators go up, prey go down and predators go down too. It repeats like a cycle.

Question 6

Physical defense

Answer 6

Their look helps them.

Question 6

Mechanical defense

Answer 6

A defense of armor or something that helps the animals survive.

Question 7

Chemical defense

Question 8

Behavioral defense

Answer 8

How they act and how they can get away from

Question 9

Mimicry

Question 10

Competitive Exclusion Principle

Question 11

Symbiosis

Answer 11

Mutualism is something to help both a species and another species. Commensalism is a species that uses another species for their benefit, and that species that they are using is not effective. Parasitism is a species using that species for their benefit and causing problems with that species.

Question 12

Species richness

Question 12

Biodiversity

Question 12

Species evenness

Question 13

Relative abundance

Question 14

Foundation species

Question 15

Environmental disturbance

Question 16

Keystone species

Question 17

Succession

Question 18

Ecosystem

Answer 18

Equilibrium, to balance in an equal force or opposite force. Resistance, an ecosystem stopping any harmful force to destory their ecosystem.

Question 19

Pioneer species

Question 20

Resilience

Question 21

Autotroph

Question 21

Trophic level

Answer 21

A ranking of lists of each species and how energy passes up.

Question 22

Consumer

Answer 22

Primary consumers eat producers, secondary consumers eat primary consumers, tertiary consumers eat secondary consumers, and quaternary consumers eat tertiary consumers.

Question 23

Net primary productivity

Question 24

Gross primary productivity

Question 25

Biomagnification

Question 26

Biogeochemical cycle

Question 27

Water cycle

Answer 27

Water evaporation or another word, water goes up. Condensation is like a cloud that soon rains. If it rains then it is called precipitation.

Question 27

CHNOPS

Answer 27

Carbon, hyation, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur.

Question 28

Hydrosphere

Question 29

Carbon cycle

Question 30

Nitrogen cycle

Question 31

Eutrophication

Question 32

Phosphorus cycle

Question 33

Sulfur cycle