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The Web of Life
Question | Answer |
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What is Ecology? | The study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment. |
What does Abiotic and Biotic mean? | Abiotic means nonliving things and Biotic means living things. |
All of the organisms that live together and interact with one another make up the _____part of the environment. The ______part of the environment consists of the nonliving factor. | Biotic and Abiotic |
What are the 5 levels of organization from largest to smallest. | Biosphere, Ecosystem, Community, Population, and Organism. |
What is Population? | Each animal is a part of a population, or a group of individuals of the same species that live together. |
What does Communities mean? | A community consists all of the populations of species that live and interact in an area. |
What does Ecosystems mean? | An ecosystem is made up of a community of organisms and their abiotic environment. |
The biosphere is ____________________________________________________________________________. It extends from the deepest parts of the _____________to________________________________________________________________________________________. | The part of Earth where life exists, ocean, high, and in the air where plant spores drift |
What are Producers? | Organisms that eat only plants. |
What is the process that all plants go through? | Photosynthesis |
What are Consumers? | Organisms that only eat |
What is Ecology? | The study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment. |
What does Abiotic and Biotic mean? | Abiotic means nonliving things and Biotic means living things. |
All of the organisms that live together and interact with one another make up the _____part of the environment. The ______part of the environment consists of the nonliving factor. | Biotic and Abiotic |
What are the 5 levels of organization from largest to smallest. | Biosphere, Ecosystem, Community, Population, and Organism. |
What is Population? | Each animal is a part of a population, or a group of individuals of the same species that live together. |
What does Communities mean? | A community consists all of the populations of species that live and interact in an area. |
What does Ecosystems mean? | An ecosystem is made up of a community of organisms and their abiotic environment. |
The biosphere is ____________________________________________________________________________. It extends from the deepest parts of the _____________to________________________________________________________________________________________. | The part of Earth where life exists, ocean, high, and in the air where plant spores drift |
What are Producers? | Organisms that eat only plants. |
What is the process that all plants go through? | Photosynthesis |
What are Consumers? | Organisms that only eat |
What is Ecology? | The study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment. |
What does Abiotic and Biotic mean? | Abiotic means nonliving things and Biotic means living things. |
All of the organisms that live together and interact with one another make up the _____part of the environment. The ______part of the environment consists of the nonliving factor. | Biotic and Abiotic |
What are the 5 levels of organization from largest to smallest. | Biosphere, Ecosystem, Community, Population, and Organism. |
What is Population? | Each animal is a part of a population, or a group of individuals of the same species that live together. |
What does Communities mean? | A community consists all of the populations of species that live and interact in an area. |
What does Ecosystems mean? | An ecosystem is made up of a community of organisms and their abiotic environment. |
The biosphere is ____________________________________________________________________________. It extends from the deepest parts of the _____________to________________________________________________________________________________________. | The part of Earth where life exists, ocean, high, and in the air where plant spores drift |
What are Producers? | Organisms that eat only plants. |
What is the process that all plants go through? | Photosynthesis |
What are Consumers? | Organisms that only eat meat. |
What are Decomposers? | Organisms that eat other dead organisms? |
What is a Food chain? | A diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another. |
What is a Food Web? | A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. |
What are differences between a food chain and a food web? | One shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another and the other shows the feeding relationships between organisms in and ecosystem. n |
An energy pyramid is a triangular diagram that shows___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | an ecosystem's loss of energy which results as energy passes through the ecosystems food chain. |