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ECOLOGY TEST
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a nonliving factor in the environment called? | Abiotic |
| What is an organism that obtains energy from anabiotic sources called? | Autotroph |
| What is a community of organisms? | Biome |
| What is the part of the earth where life exists? | Biosphere |
| What are the living factors in the environment called? | Biotic |
| What is an organism that obtains energy by eating only animals? | Carnivore |
| What is a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and one is not affected? | Commensalism |
| What is a collection of all the different populations that live in one area called? | Community |
| What is an organism that obtains its energy by eating other organisms called? | Consumer |
| What is an organism that decomposes organic material called? | Decomposer |
| What is an animal that feeds on dead organic material called? | Detritivore |
| What is the study of interactions among living things and their surroundings? | Ecology |
| What is the collection of organisms and nonliving things and then area? | Ecosystem |
| What is a model that links organisms my other feeding relationships? | Food chain |
| What is the model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships within an ecosystem? | Food web |
| What is an animal that feeds on plants? | Herbivore |
| What is an organism that cannot make its own food? | Heterotroph |
| What is a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit? | Mutualism |
| What is the organism that eats both animals and plants? | Omnivore |
| What is the relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed? | Parasitism |
| What is a group of the same species that live in an area called? | Population |
| What is an organism that makes it's own food called? | Producer |
| What is an interaction between two different organisms? | Symbiosis |
| What are the two requirements of ecosystems? | There must be a constant flow of energy and there must be a cycle of materials was he living organisms and the environment |
| What type of interaction is when lions and hyenas fight over a dead zebra? | Competition |
| What type of interaction is when a tick feeds on a human? | Parasitism |
| What it of interaction? Well gathering plants flowers, babies lightly dusted with pollen. Thre bee transports the pollen as it moves from one flower to another. | Mutualism |
| What it of interaction? Tapeworms live in animal intestines and grow new segments as it absorb digested food. An animal may become undernourished as a tapeworm segments are lost with eliminated waste and the taperworrms grow more new segments. | Parasitism |
| What it of interaction? A starfish attaches it's tube fee to an oyster shell and pulls until the oysters fatigued muscles can no longer hold the shell closed. | Predation |
| What are different species of animals in the community most likely similar in? | Abiotic requirements |
| What are interactions between organisms in which influence their development in survival mode? | Biotic factors |
| The study right over a period of years in a certain part of the country, the research show that there was a Low amount of rainfall, a wide seasonal variation in temperature, and short periods of daylight. These environmental factors are..... | Abiotic factors that limit the type of organisms present in the area |
| What is the presence of nitrogen fixing bacteria in nodules on the roots of peanut plants called? | Mutualism |
| Name an example of an abiotic feature. | Water |
| What are the organisms that prevent the earth from becoming covered with the bodies of dead organisms known as? | Saprophytes |
| A particular species of fish has a very narrow range of tolerance for changes in water temperature. For the fish, the temperature and oxygen content represent what? | Limiting factors |
| Which occurs within self-sustaining ecosystems? | Organisms interact with their environment |
| Paris it to them is a type of nutritional relationship in which...... | One organism benefits and the other is harmed |
| Herbivores, carnivores, and saprophytes are what? | Hetertrophs |
| The primary source of energy for ecosystems is? | Sunlight |
| What is the movement of a particular chemical through the biological and geological parts of an ecosystem called? | Biogeochemical cycle |
| In the carbon cycle, plants take in _______ from the air and convert it into organic material that becomes part of the plant structure. | Carbon dioxide |
| Carbon enters the atmosphere is carbon dioxide from respiration and from the _______ of dead organisms. | Decomposition |
| What is a environmental factor that restricts the population from growing? | A limiting factor |
| Why do organisms need nitrogen? | To make protein |
| Two or false? Nitrogen gas makes up about 78% of the air yet can't be used by organisms other than certain types of bacteria. | True |
| The process of converting atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia is called what? | Nitrogen fixation |
| What living organisms give plans he's a ball nitrogen in the form of ammonia by carrying out nitrogen fixation? | Bacteria |
| How can your men's disrupt to the nitrogen cycle? | Poor farming practices cause depletion of nitrogen |
| What are some ways humans can interfere with the carbon cycle and not too much carbon to the atmosphere? | By burning fossil fuels |
| What could be the effects on the carbon cycle if humans are too much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? | Global Warming |
| What is the sequence of bionic changes that regenerate a damage community? | Succession |
| What type of succession would occur if the soil is ruined? | Primary succession |
| When a disturbance changes the community without removing the soil such as a fire hurricane, what type of succession follows? | Secondary succession |
| The first species to populated area in primary succession begins is called what? | Pioneer species |
| Tropical or temperate? What type of grassland has a wet season and a dry season? | Tropical |
| Tropical or temperate? What type of grassland has a dry summer and a late wet spring and early summer? | Temperate |
| What type of Desert has cool winter followed by long warm summers? | Coastal |
| A temperate deciduous forest has_____precipitation then a temperate rainforest. | More |
| ______ plangs grow in the tundra because of a layer of frozen soil called permafrost. | Few |
| One of the main characteristics of chaparral is________. | Long hot summer |
| What tree loses its leaves in the autumn? | Deciduous |
| What type of tree keeps its needles all year long? | Coniferous |
| What is any undesirable factor or pollutant that is added to the environment? | Pollution |
| What type of air pollutant is caused by interactions of sunlight with pollutants produced by fossil fuel emission? | Smog |
| What type of precipitation is produced when pollutants cause the pH in rain to drop below normal levels? | Acid rain |
| Building roads, clearing forests, and building new housing developments are human activities that contribute to what? | Habitat fragmentation |
| A species brought into an ecosystem is the result of human actions is called what? | An introduced species |
| A non-native species that increases in population size under a variety of conditions in causes economic damage is_____. | Invasive species |
| A tunnel under Highway provides a path for migrating frogs. The tunnel is a technology that can help lessen damage from_____. | Habitat Fragmentation |
| What type of pyramid compares energy used by producers, primariy consumer, and in each tropic level? | Energy Pyrmaid |
| What type of pyrmaid shows the mass of each trophic level needed to support the next trophic level ? | Biomass Pyrmaid |
| What pyrmaid shows the number of individual organism on each trophic level? | Pyrmaid of Numbers |
| Which biome? Warm temperatures, abundant rainfall year round lush forests with thick tree top layers that are home to a huge variety of species. | Tropical rainforest |
| Which biome? Dominated by grasses with scattered trees and shrubs definite dry season during the warm months of the year habitat for a large hole of the animals and for burrowing animals | Grassland |
| Which biome? Dry climate, plants are adapted to store water, many animals are nocturnal to avoid daytime heat. | Desert |
| Which biome? Dominated by coniferous or deciduous forest, some forests have hot summers and cold winters; others have a long wet season and a dry summer. | Temperate forest |
| Which biome? Long, cold winters and short, cold summer is dominated by coniferous trees and furry mammals. | Taiga |
| Which biome? Long Winters with the below zero temperatures and little percipitation ground is permanently frozen. | Tundra |
| What does most life on earth depend on? | Photosynthetic organisms |
| Organisms like plants, bacteria, and algae are most likely to be in which trophic level? | The lowest |
| A tertiary consumer is on what trophic level? | The fourth trophic level |
| The number of trophic levels that can be maintaining an ecosystem is limited by what? | The loss of potential energy |
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