Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
KLS Midterm Rev Eco
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abiotic factors | Non living parts of an ecosystem |
| Biotic factors | Living parts of an ecosystem |
| Scavanger | Organism that feeds on the remains of dead living things |
| Community | Animals that live in the same area and interact with each other |
| Population | Group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same place |
| Population density | relation between the number of individuals of a population and the area or volume they occupy: the number of individuals of a population in a specific area. |
| Habitat | place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs |
| Emigration | the migration seen as an exit of individuals from one region to another where they will settle permanently or temporarily; animals emigrate from or leave for a reason |
| Immigration | Immigration is the migration seen as the settling in one region (permanently or temporarily) of individuals coming from another region; animals immigrate to a place |
| Organism | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently; smallest unit of ecological organization |
| Organization in an ecosystem | organism, population, community, ecosystem |
| Ecology | Ecology is the relationship of living things to each other and to what’s around them; Ecology includes not only how living things interact with each other, but how they interact with their physical environment: things such as climate, water, and soil |
| Symbiotic relationships | Close living associations; mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are examples of symbiotic relationships |
| Examples of biotic factors in the Everglades | sawgrass, cypress trees, alligators. panthers, orchids, flowers, snakes, etc |
| Examples of abiotic factors in the Everglades | water, air, temperature, ph level, sunlight, precipitation, soil, etc |
| Competition | Habitats have limited amounts of the resources needed by living organisms. Organisms must struggle with others in order to get enough of these resources to survive. This struggle is called competition. |
| Niche | What an organism does in its habitat including its role in the food web; an organism's particular role in its habitat |
| Omnivore | eats both plant and animal material |
| Abiotic factors used by plants to make food | sunlight, carbon dioxide, water |
| Carrying capacity | maximum number of organisms the resources of an ecosystem can support |
| Community | All the different populations that live together in an area |
| Producer | green plants and algae capable of making their own food using energy from the sun in a process called photosynthesis. |
| Where do plants get most of their nitrogen | Soil |
| Where do animals get their nitrogen from | From the food that they eat especially plants |
| A tick on a dog is an example of a what | parasite |
| The dog that a tick is living on is a what | host |
| Food Web | All of the food chains in an ecosystem form a food web |
| Decomposer | unable to make their own food; they break down waste products and dead organisms for food. |
| Herbivore | Primary consumer, consumes plants |
| Carnivore | Secondary or third level consumer, eats meat |
| Predator | Type of carnivore that kills its food |
| Prey | Organism a predator feeds on |
| parasite | parasites include any organisms that live by drawing food from a host organism |
| mutualism | a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the relationship. |
| commensalism | a type of relationship between two species of a plant, animal, fungus, etc., in which one lives with, on, or in another without damage to either. |
| ecosystem | An ecosystem, includes all the living organisms existing together in a particular area. These plants and animals within an area interact with each other and with the non-living elements of the area, such as climate, water, soil and so on. |
| symbiotic relationship | symbiotic relationship refers to long term biological interaction between two different organisms in a given ecosystem |
| types of symbiotic relationships | symbiotic relationships are categorized into three different types - mutualism, commensalism and parasitism |
| mutualism | When both the organisms involved in the process of biological interaction benefit from each other |
| commensalism | When one of the two organisms involved is benefited from the interaction, while the other remains unaffected |
| parasitism | when one organism gets benefited from the interaction at the cost of other organism - which is subjected to harm |
| scavanger | Scavengers are animals that feed on the bodies of dead organisms, rather than kill their own prey. |
| examples of scavangers | raccoons, crows, vultures, crabs |
| population | all the members of one species living in a particular area |
| population density | the number of individuals of a population in a specific area |
| habitat | place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs |
Created by:
coachkls
Popular Biology sets