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Apologia Biology Module 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Ecology? | The study of the interactions between living and nonliving things. |
| What is Population? | A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together. |
| What is Community? | A group of populations living and interacting in the same area. |
| What is the Ecosystem? | An association of living organisms and their physical environment. |
| What is a Biome? | A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life. |
| What is a Primary consumer? | An organism that eats producers. |
| What is a Secondary consumer? | An organism that eats primary consumers. |
| What is a Tertiary consumer? | An organism that eats secondary consumers. |
| What is the Ecological pyramid? | A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level. |
| What is Biomass? | A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region. |
| What is Transpiration? | Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant. |
| What is Watershed? | An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water. |
| What is the Greenhouse effect? | The process by which certain gases (principally water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise be escape the earth and radiate into space. |
| What are the three trophic levels? | Primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer. |
| Which is better for providing a more accurate description of the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem: a food web or a food chain? | A food web |
| Is a mutualistic relationship a beneficial one or a harmful one? | It is beneficial to both organisms. |
| A biologist is studying two different ecosystems. One is defined as a 30-yard stretch of ocean shoreline, and the other is a forest that runs one mile across and half of a mile wide. Which one will be the easiest to study? | |
| In the previous problem, which ecosystem will most likely reveal the most information ? (The forest or the ocean shoreline?) | |
| The following is a list of things found |