1. EOC REVIEW STANDARD B-6 ECOLOGY

2. 100
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?

3. 100
This is an interaction between species in which on species kills and eats the other.

4. 100
This is a relationship that occurs when two or more organisms need the same resource at the same time.

5. 100
This term refers to the role or an organism in the environment…including the type of food it eats, how it obtains food, and how it interacts with other organisms.

6. 100
A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit

7. 100
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not harmed or helped.

8. 100
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of the other. In general, the second organism is not killed.

9. 100
This term refers to a group of organisms of the same species that live in a particular area.

10. 100
This term refers to different types of species living in the same area.

11. 100
This term refers to all of the biotic and abiotic factors that interact in a particular area.

12. 100
This term refers to the portion of the atmosphere where life exists.

13. 100
This term refers to anything that limits population growth.

14. 100
Give an example of a density-dependent limiting factor.

15. 100
Density independent limiting factors are usually biotic/abiotic factors?

16. 200
What is the biggest difference between primary and secondary succession?

17. 200
What are the pioneer species for primary succession?

18. 200
What is the term for the mature community of plant and animal species that is the desired end result of succession?

19. 200
What is the main way carbon is removed from the atmosphere (by producers)?

20. 200
What are 2 ways that carbon is released back into the atmosphere?

21. 200
Where is most nitrogen found, and in what form?

22. 200
What living organisms play a major role in the nitrogen cycle, and what is their role?

23. 200
What form of nitrogen is usable by plants and how do they “take it in”?

24. 200
What is the process called when bacteria break down nitrogen compounds in the soil and release it back to the atmosphere as nitrogen gas?

25. 200
What are the 4 main steps of the water cycle?

26. 200
What drives the water cycle?

27. 200
What is the greenhouse effect?

28. 200
What are the greenhouse gases?

29. 200
When there are too many greenhouse gases, Earth’s global temperature starts to rise as a result of what phenomenon?

30. 300
What is the term used to describe the maximum number of individuals an environment can support?

31. 300
What is it that helps determine the carry capacity for that environment?

32. 300
What is the type of growth a population experiences when it is growing rapidly?

33. 300
What type of growth curve shows the slowing of growth as the population reaches the carrying capacity?

34. 300
What is one positive AND one negative impact technology has on Earth’s ecosystems?

35. 300
What is the effect of when pollutants in the air combine with the water that falls to Earth as precipitation?

36. 300
What is the difference between a non-renewable versus a renewable resource?

37. 300
What is sustainable use?

38. 300
What does it mean to be an umbrella species?

39. 300
What are 3 ways that human population growth is impacting Earth’s ecosystems?

40. 300
The pattern of increasing global temperatures has been found to correspond with an increase in what atmospheric gas?