Ecology

Question 1

biotic factor

Answer 1

living

Question 2

abiotic factor

Answer 2

whether, soil, salt, pressure

Question 3

organism

Answer 3

individual life form

Question 4

species

Answer 4

large group of organisms

Question 5

population

Answer 5

all inhabitants of an area

Question 6

community

Answer 6

a group living in the same place or that have a characteristic in common

Question 7

habitat

Answer 7

the natural home or environment

Question 8

natural selection

Answer 8

organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

Question 9

evolution

Answer 9

different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms

Question 10

producers/autotrophs

Answer 10

plants

Question 11

consumers/heterotrophs

Answer 11

animals, insects

Question 12

primary consumer

Answer 12

herbivores

Question 13

secondary consumer

Answer 13

carnivores

Question 14

tertiary consumer

Answer 14

top predator

Question 15

herbivores

Answer 15

plant eaters

Question 16

carnivores

Answer 16

meat eaters

Question 17

omnivores

Answer 17

plants/meat eaters

Question 18

decomposers

Answer 18

organisms that decompose

Question 19

food chain

Answer 19

series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

Question 20

food web

Answer 20

a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

Question 21

energy pyramid

Answer 21

model of energy flow in a community

Question 22

ecosystem

Answer 22

biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

Question 23

Carbon cycle

Answer 23

carbon being redistributed to nature

Question 24

Nitrogen cycle

Answer 24

nitrogen being created and going back into nature

Question 25

Ecological succession

Answer 25

ecosystems change and develop over time

Question 26

Primary succession

Answer 26

the development of plant and animal life in an area without topsoil

Question 27

Secondary succession

Answer 27

reduces an already established ecosystem to a smaller population of species

Question 28

Pioneer species

Answer 28

hardy species which are the first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems

Question 29

Climax community

Answer 29

final stage of succession remaining relatively unchanged until destroyed by an event such as fire or human interference