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Janssen Bio Ch 13
Biology Chapter 13: Ecology Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an individual living thing? | organism |
| What is a group of species that live in one area called? | population |
| What is a group of different species that live together in one area called? | community |
| What are all of the living and non-living things in a given area? | ecosystem |
| What is a major regional or global community usually characterized by climate conditions? | biome |
| What is the term for carefully watching something over time? | observation |
| What kind of experiment is conducted indoors? | laboratory |
| What kind of experiment is conducted outside, where an animal typically lives? | field |
| What is the study of interactions among living things and their environment called? | ecology |
| What contains both communities and ecosystems? | biome |
| What kind of factors are living things? | biotic |
| What kind of factors are non-living things? | abiotic |
| What kind of organism has a large effect on the ecosystem? | keystone species |
| What is the term for the variety of living things in an ecosystem? | biodiversity |
| Ultimately where does all energy for living things come from? | sun |
| What is an organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms? | heterotroph |
| What kind of organism makes its own food? | autotroph |
| What is the process of using energy from chemicals to form carbohydrates? | chemosynthesis |
| What shows the feeding relationship that begins with producers and links to a series of consumers? | food chain |
| What is an organism that eats only plants? | herbivore |
| What is an organism that eats only animals? | carnivore |
| What is an organism that eats both plants and animals? | omnivore |
| What is an organism that eats dead organic matter called? | detritivore |
| What is an organism that breaks down organic matter? | decomposer |
| What is an organism that eats primarily one species? | specialist |
| What is an organism that has a varied diet? | generalist |
| What does a network of linked food chains form? | food web |
| What type of organism forms the base of every food chain? | producer |
| What are the levels of nourishment in a food pyramid called? | trophic levels |
| What is the water that falls to Earth as rain or snow? | precipitation |
| What is the term for the process of water vapor rising into the atmosphere? | evaporation |
| What is the water vapor that is released by plants and rises into the atmosphere? | transpiration |
| What is the water vapor that forms clouds called? | condensation |
| What process do plants and animals need oxygen for? | respiration |
| What gas is released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned? | carbon dioxide |
| What is another name for the water cycle? | hydrologic cycle |
| What is the measure of the total dry mass of organisms in a given area? | biomass |
| What does the bottom layer of an energy pyramid contain? | producers |
| What does the second layer of an energy pyramid contain? | primary consumers |
| What does the third layer of an energy pyramid contain? | secondary consumers |
| What does the top layer of an energy pyramid contain? | tertiary consumers |
| What kind of diagram compares the amount of energy at each trophic level? | energy pyramid |
| What kind of diagram compares the amount of biomass at each trophic level? | biomass pyramid |
| What kind of diagram shows the number of organisms in each trophic level? | pyramid of numbers |
| What is the term for an organism that is NOT a native part of the ecosystem? | invasive species |
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