1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Eco Eco IITrophs or  Climate

2. This is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environments.

3. What is ecology? 100

4. The portion of the earth that supports life.

5. What is the biosphere? 200

6. The nonliving parts of the environment.

7. What are abiotic factors? 300

8. This is a group of organisms of one species that interbreeds and live in the same place at the same time.

9. What is a population? 400

10. This is the following words put in order by increasing level of organization: ecosystem, community, organism, biosphere, population.

11. What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere? 500

12. This is the place that an organism lives out its life.

13. What is a habitat? 100

14. This includes interactions amongst populations in a community and the communities physical surroundings.

15. What is an ecosystem? 200

16. This is the role that a species plays in a community. It includes how a species uses and affects its environment

17. What is a niche? 300

18. This is a collection of interacting populations.

19. What is a community? 400

20. These are four essential ingredients in a habitat.

21. What are food, water, shelter, space? 500

22. Organisms that use energy from the sun or inorganic compounds to manufacture their food.

23. What are autotrophs? 100

24. Organisms that depend on autotrophs for their food.

25. What are heterotrophs? 200

26. This represents one possible route for matter and energy in an ecosystem.

27. What is a food chain? 300

28. Energy ultimately comes from this.

29. What is the sun? 400

30. 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.

31. What is 1000? 500

32. This term means “living together.”

33. What is symbiosis? 100

34. These organisms have evolved in such a way that they harm but usually do not kill their host.

35. What are parasites? 200

36. And

37. What is mutualism? 300

38. The relationship when Spanish moss grows on a tree branch and it does not harm or benefit the tree.

39. What is commensalism? 400

40. These are two examples of parasitic relationships.

41. What are ______ & _____? 500

42. Today’s ______ 30F and partly cloudy.

43. What is weather? 100

44. The average weather for an ecosystem.

45. What is climate? 200

46. The earth will heat more near the equator because of this.

47. What is receive more direct rays of sunlight? 300

48. These two components of the atmosphere help regulate out temperature.

49. What are carbon dioxide and water vapor? 400

50. This is located between 23.5°N and 23.5°S latitude.

51. What is the tropical zone? 500