terms-definitions

Question 1

ecology

Answer 1

Relationship between living things and their physical environment. Physical environment includes climate, water and soil.

Question 2

habitat

Answer 2

Where an organism lives. Includes biotic and abiotic factors.

Question 3

environment

Answer 3

set of living and nonliving factors in a given area

Question 4

ecosystem

Answer 4

all interactions between nonliving and living factors

Question 5

population

Answer 5

group of organisms of the same species

Question 6

community

Answer 6

contains multiple populations of different species.

Question 7

ecosystem 2

Answer 7

contains multiple communities

Question 8

biome

Answer 8

contains multiple ecosystems

Question 9

biosphere

Answer 9

contains all biomes and therefore all living things.

Question 10

biotic

Answer 10

all living things and their interactions with other organisms

Question 11

abiotic

Answer 11

nonliving part of the environment that affects the lives of organisms.

Question 12

photosynthesis

Answer 12

process of plants, some algae and bacteria being able to transform light energy into chemical energy.

Question 13

chloroplast’s

Answer 13

are organelles within a plant cell, acting as the site for photosynthesis.

Question 14

stomata

Answer 14

microscopic pores that take in carbon

Question 15

biological control

Answer 15

releasing an organism into an ecosystem in order to control a population.