Eco Eco IITrophs or Climate
This is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environments.
What is ecology? 100
The portion of the earth that supports life.
What is the biosphere? 200
The nonliving parts of the environment.
What are abiotic factors? 300
This is a group of organisms of one species that interbreeds and live in the same place at the same time.
What is a population? 400
This is the following words put in order by increasing level of organization: ecosystem, community, organism, biosphere, population.
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere? 500
This is the place that an organism lives out its life.
What is a habitat? 100
This includes interactions amongst populations in a community and the communities physical surroundings.
What is an ecosystem? 200
This is the role that a species plays in a community. It includes how a species uses and affects its environment
What is a niche? 300
This is a collection of interacting populations.
What is a community? 400
These are four essential ingredients in a habitat.
What are food, water, shelter, space? 500
Organisms that use energy from the sun or inorganic compounds to manufacture their food.
What are autotrophs? 100
Organisms that depend on autotrophs for their food.
What are heterotrophs? 200
This represents one possible route for matter and energy in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain? 300
Energy ultimately comes from this.
What is the sun? 400
If you had 100,000 units of energy available in the first trophic level, this is how many units of energy that would be available in the 3 rd trophic level.
What is 1000? 500
This term means “living together.”
What is symbiosis? 100
These organisms have evolved in such a way that they harm but usually do not kill their host.
What are parasites? 200
And
What is mutualism? 300
The relationship when Spanish moss grows on a tree branch and it does not harm or benefit the tree.
What is commensalism? 400
These are two examples of parasitic relationships.
What are ______ & _____? 500
Today’s ______ 30F and partly cloudy.
What is weather? 100
The average weather for an ecosystem.
What is climate? 200
The earth will heat more near the equator because of this.
What is receive more direct rays of sunlight? 300
These two components of the atmosphere help regulate out temperature.
What are carbon dioxide and water vapor? 400
This is located between 23.5°N and 23.5°S latitude.
What is the tropical zone? 500