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Ecology Quiz Review

Ecology Quiz Review. Empty slide to keep flashcards in order. What is the study of living things and how they interact with their environment?. What is the study of living things and how they interact with their environment?. ECOLOGY.

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Ecology Quiz Review

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  1. Ecology Quiz Review

  2. Empty slide to keep flashcards in order

  3. What is the study of living things and how they interact with their environment?

  4. What is the study of living things and how they interact with their environment? ECOLOGY

  5. Name the levels of organization of living things from smallest to biggest.

  6. What is… Organism Species Population Community Ecosystem Biome Biosphere Species Organism

  7. What is an organism?

  8. What is an organism? One member of a species

  9. What is a species?

  10. What is a species? An organism that can reproduce and produce fertile offspring

  11. What is a population?

  12. What is a population? Why are you looking at us? Organisms of the same species living in the same area.

  13. What is a community?

  14. What is a community? All the different types of living things in an area

  15. What is an ecosystem?

  16. What is an ecosystem? “Abiotic” Non-Living Sun Water Soil “Biotic” Living Trees Ducks Fish All the living (biotic)and non-living (abiotic) things in an area

  17. What is a biome?

  18. What is a biome? Group of ecosystems with same climate, same types of living things (plants and animals)

  19. What is the biosphere?

  20. What is the biosphere? All the areas of the Earth (above, on, below surface) that contains living things

  21. ______ is where an organism lives and gets its needs met? (example: food, air, shelter, etc.)

  22. Habitat is where an organism lives and gets its needs met? (example: food, air, shelter, etc.)

  23. ______________ is the average temperature and precipitation in a particular area.

  24. CLIMATEis the average temperature and precipitation in a particular area.

  25. What make their own food?

  26. PRODUCERS AUTOTROPHS (PLANTS!)

  27. What need to find and eat food?

  28. What need to find and eat food? Heterotrophs - Consumers Carnivore Herbivore Omnivore Decomposers Scavengers

  29. What do each of these consumers eat? Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore

  30. What do each of these consumers eat? Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore Eats only meat Eats only plants Eats meat and plants

  31. What digests and absorbs nutrients from decaying organisms?

  32. DECOMPOSERS (Mushrooms, Bacteria)

  33. What is an organism that eats already dead animals?

  34. We really need to thank the lions for killing our meal! Scavengers Vultures& Hyenas

  35. What provides almost all the energy in ecosystems?

  36. What provides almost all the energy in ecosystems? THE SUN!!!!

  37. What is this structure called? Name and describe each trophic level. How much energy is transferred from lower level to next?

  38. What is this structure called? Energy Pyramid Name and describe each trophic level. See labels How much energy is transferred from lower level to next? 10% Carnivores & Omnivores Carnivores (eat Herbivores) & Omnivores

  39. What is this called?

  40. Food Chain Linear Loss of one organism disrupts the chain

  41. What is this called? Why does the arrow point towards the consumer?

  42. Food Web • Shows the transfer of energy from one organism to another. • Arrow points to mouth that does the eating. • One loss of organism does not disrupt the entire web.

  43. Biotic Factor means… Abiotic Factor means…

  44. Biotic factor means… Living factors that affect the environment or a population. Examples: disease, predators, prey Abiotic factor means… Non-living factorsthat affect the environment or a population. Examples: wind, hurricane, tornado, flood

  45. What is the human factor?

  46. A factor caused by human actions such as pollution, all trees cut down, global warming, making a park, or over hunting that affect the environment or a population.

  47. ____________ is your habitat plus your role in it (a relationship) Mother/Child or Predator/Prey

  48. Niche is your habitat plus your role in it (a relationship) Mother/Child or Predator/Prey

  49. _____?______ Organisms depending on each other

  50. SYMBIOSIS Organisms depending on each other Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism, Predation

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