Question | Answer |
What is it to act upon or with something? | Interact |
What is the study of the interactions among living things and the nonliving things in their environment? | Ecology |
What is it to act upon or with something? | Interact |
What is the study of the interactions among living things and the nonliving things in their environment? | Ecology |
What do you call a place that an organism lives in? | Habitat |
What is a group of organisms of the same species that lives in the same area called? | Population |
What does biotic mean? | Living |
What do you call abiotic? | Nonliving |
What is a group of different populations that live in the same area called? | Community |
What is the interactions among the populations of a community and the nonliving things in their environment called? | Ecosystem |
What is the number of individuals that an environment can support called? | Carrying capacity |
What is a group of different populations that live in the same area called? | Community |
What is the process by which a community changes over time? | Succession |
What is the number of individuals that an environment can support called? | Carrying capacity |
What is the process by which a community changes over time? | Succession |
What is a community that changes little over time called? | Climax community |
When you add anything to the environment that is harmful to living things what do you call this? | Pollution |
What is acid rain? | Rain that is caused by pollution and is harmful to organisms because it is acidic. |
If their are fewer of a species than there used to be what is this called? | Threatened |
If their are almost no animals left of a certain species what is this called? | Endangered |
If all the members of a species are dead what is that called? | Extinct |
What is an ecosystem found over a large geographic area called? | Biome |
What is a thing that an organism uses to live? | Resource |
What are resources that are replaced by nature called? | Renewable resource |
What are resources that cannot be replaced called? | Nonrenewable |
What are fossil fuels? | Fuels formed millions of years ago from the remains of plants and animals. |
What is the part of earth where living things can exist? | Biosphere |
What is a food chain? | The feeding order of organisms in a community. |
What do you call a organism that makes its own food? | Producer |
What is a consumer? | An organism that feeds on other organisms. |
What do you call a consumer that eats both plants and animals? | Omnivore |
What's the pyramid of numbers? | A diagram that compares the sizes of populations at different levels of a food chain. |
What is a food web? | All the food chains in a community that are linked to one another. |
What is a energy pyrimid? | A diagram that compares the amounts of energy available to the populations at different levels of a food chain. |