M5

Question 1

Consists of all living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) features of the area occupied by the animal.

Answer 1

Habitat

Question 2

Includes the following: availability of oxygen, inorganic ions, light, temperature and current or wind velocity; moisture, light, geology and soils.

Answer 2

Abiotic Factors

Question 3

Animal’s response to any of the abiotic factors mentioned is referred to as _____, this can either be positive or negative.

Answer 3

Taxis

Question 4

Includes interactions that happen among individuals of the same species as well as interactions between different species.

Answer 4

Biotic Factors

Question 5

Are groups of individuals of the same species that dwell on a given area at the same time and possess distinctive characteristics.

Answer 5

Population

Question 6

-Occurs among members of the same species.
-Involves utilization of the same resources that can hinder each other in acquiring those resources.
-Often intense because the resources considered here is nearly identical.

Answer 6

Intraspecific Competition

Question 7

-Competition for resources that exists among members of different species.
-The result is that one species moves or become extinct, or two species share the resources and coexist.

Answer 7

Interspecific Competition

Question 8

Only cutting and usually not killing the plant by a herbivore.

Answer 8

Herbivory

Question 9

Killing and eating the prey.

Answer 9

Predatory

Question 10

-Coordinated evolution of ecologically related species.
-Can happen on the species involved in the following interactions: interspecific competition and predation.

Answer 10

Coevolution

Question 11

Continuing and intimate associations between two different species.

Answer 11

Symbiosis

Question 12

Parasite lives in or on a host (can also involve multiple hosts).

Answer 12

Parasitism

Question 13

One member of the relationship benefits while the other is neither benefited nor harmed.

Answer 13

Commensalism

Question 14

Both members of the relationship benefit.

Answer 14

Mutualism

Question 15

Means of animals to avoid detection, can either be visual, chemical or auditory.

Answer 15

Crypsis

Question 16

Sequence of organisms through which energy moves in an ecosystem.

Answer 16

Food Chain

Question 17

Species resembles one or sometimes more other species, this provides protection for them.

Answer 17

Mimicry

Question 18

Communities including their physical environment.

Answer 18

Ecosystem

Question 19

Food chains that are interconnected and is considered as more realistic.

Answer 19

Food Web

Question 19

Grouping of organisms based on utilized form of energy.

Answer 19

Trophic Level

Question 20

Acquire nutrition from inorganic materials; energy source. First trophic level.

Answer 20

Producers (Autotrophs)

Question 21

Get energy through eating other organisms.

Answer 21

Consumers (Heterotrophs)

Question 22

Eat producers. Primary consumers.

Answer 22

Herbivores

Question 23

Eat carnivores that ate the herbivores. Tertiary Consumers.

Answer 23

Carnivores

Question 23

Eat herbivores. Secondary consumers.

Answer 23

Some carnivores

Question 24

Get nourished through large chunk of dead and decaying organic matter.

Answer 24

Scavengers

Question 25

Breakdown dead organisms and feces.

Answer 25

Decomposers

Question 26

-Cycling of all matter is observed from nonliving reservoirs going to living systems and eventually returned to nonliving reservoirs.
-There is no loss of matter, and after it is utilized, later it will come back and be used again.

Answer 26

Biogeochemical Cycles

Question 27

Any element considered vital to the life of an organism.

Answer 27

Nutrient

Question 28

Point at which the nutrients enter the living systems from the reservoir.

Answer 28

Fixation

Question 29

-For oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen.
-Atmosphere or oceans serve as reservoir then fixation happens (nutrients are obtained as a gas and incorporated into living tissues).

Answer 29

Gaseous Cycles

Question 30

-For sulfur, phosphorus and calcium that is found in lesser amount in living tissues.
-Earth is referred to as the reservoir, then followed by fixation.

Answer 30

Sedimentary Cycles

Question 31

For water (cycle).

Answer 31

Hydrological Cycle