Test 2

Question 1

loving factors

Answer 1

biotic factors

Question 2

non living factors

Answer 2

biotic factor

Question 3

individual organisms of a single species that share the same geographical location at the same time

Answer 3

population

Question 4

group of interacting populations that occurs the same geographical area at the same time

Answer 4

biological community

Question 5

community of loving organisms in conjunction with non living components of their environment

Answer 5

ecosystem

Question 6

large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities

Answer 6

Biome

Question 7

study of where an organism lives

Answer 7

ecology

Question 8

where an organism lives

Answer 8

habitat

Question 9

an organisms job

Answer 9

niche

Question 10

act of one organism consuming another

Answer 10

predation

Question 11

close relationship that exists when two or more species live together

Answer 11

symbiosis

Question 12

relationship between two or more organisms that’s benefit from each other

Answer 12

mutualism

Question 13

one organism benefits and the other organism is not helped or harmed

Answer 13

commensalism

Question 14

one organism benefits from another organism

Answer 14

parasitism

Question 15

organism that collects energy from sunlight to produce food

Answer 15

autotroph

Question 16

gets energy by consuming other organisms

Answer 16

heterotrophs

Question 17

consumes only plants

Answer 17

herbivore

Question 18

heterotroph that consumes another heterotroph

Answer 18

carnivore

Question 19

feeds on dead plant or animal matter

Answer 19

detrivore

Question 20

each step in food chain or food web

Answer 20

trophic level

Question 21

simple model that shows how energy flows through and ecosystem

Answer 21

food chain

Question 22

model representing many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through a group of organisms

Answer 22

food web

Question 23

total mass of living matter at each trophic level

Answer 23

biomass

Question 24

anything that takes up space

Answer 24

matter

Question 25

a chemical substance that an organism must obtain from its environment to substain life

Answer 25

nutrient

Question 26

exchange of matter through the biosphere

Answer 26

biochemical cycle

Question 27

process of capture and conversions of nitrogen into a form that is usable

Answer 27

nitrogen fixation

Question 28

soil bacteria convert fixed nitrogen compounds back into nitrogen gas which returns to the atmosphere

Answer 28

denitrification

Question 29

portion of earth that supplies life

Answer 29

biosphere

Question 30

what is the ultimate source of energy for our bodies

Answer 30

glucose

Question 31

break down dead organisms by releasing digestive enzymes

Answer 31

decomposers

Question 32

shows energy flow through ecosystem shows amount of energy/biomass available at each traffic level

Answer 32

ecological pyramid

Question 33

what happens to the amount of energy/biomass as we move up the pyramid

Answer 33

Energy is consumed by cellular processes or lost from heat

Question 34

ingredients for photosynthesis

Answer 34

sun, h2o, co2, chlorophyll

Question 35

ingredients in cellular respiration

Answer 35

o2, c6h12o6

Question 36

special notes for cellular respiration

Answer 36

Energy converted during cellular respiration drives the biological work of life the passage of food equals food chain; producers

Question 37

do producers carry out photosynthesis and cellular respiration

Answer 37

yes

Question 38

do consumers Carry out photosynthesis and cellular respiration

Answer 38

no just cellular respiration

Question 39

do decomposers carry out cellular respiration and photosynthesis

Answer 39

no only cellular respiration

Question 40

what is needed to make proteins to do different jobs

Answer 40

nitrogen

Question 41

organisms cannot inhale the nitrogen gas and use it to make proteins it must be ______

Answer 41

fixed

Question 42

what fixes nitrogen

Answer 42

bacteria lightning and fertilizer

Question 43

how is nitrogen in organisms returned to earth

Answer 43

urine (ammonia) and when and organism dies and decomposes

Question 44

what is needed by organisms for growth and development

Answer 44

phosphorus