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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Know the definition of ecology | the scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment |
| know the levels of organization in an environment from the most simple to the most complex be able to recognize these if given description of each | species population community ecosystem biome biosphere |
| species | is a group of organisms so similar to another they can breed population group of individual that belong to the same species and live in the same |
| population | group of individual that belong to the same species and live in the same area |
| Community | assemblages of different population that live together in a defined area |
| ecosystem | collection of all organisms that live in a particular place together with nonliving or physical environments |
| biome | group of ecosystems that have the same climate in dominant communities |
| biosphere | the highest level of organization goes as high as the atmosphere to below the ocean( whole earth) |
| basic ways ecologists study the world | observing experimenting modeling |
| difference between produce and consumer terms used to describe producer and consumer | producer autotroph makes food( plants) consumer heterotroph eats food( animals) |
| chemo synthesis in what organisms use it | autotrophs make food using chemical energy in organic compounds used by sulfur bacterias |
| ____ is a producer | cyanobacteria |
| herbivore | eats plants |
| carnivores | eat meat |
| omnivores | eat plants and meats |
| Detritvores | eat dead matter |
| decomposers | break down dead matter |
| Two processes that organisms use to make their own food give examples | photosynthesis chemosynthesis |
| chemosynthesis | chemosynthetic bacteria like sulfur bacteria uses process to make food by using inorganic chemicals to make the food |
| photosynthesis | plans algae cyanobacteria carry out this process to make food they use sunlight |