Ecology

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Chapter 3 Ecology
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Interactions of Living Things Jeopardy
Environment Living Things Energy Types of Interactions Misc.
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Which of the following is abiotic and why? fish,
turtle, soil, or flower
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Soil because it is not living
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What are all the different populations that live
in the same habitat and interact with each other
called?
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Communities
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What do you call a group of living things that
are the same species in a specific area?
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Population
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9
All of the biotic and abiotic factors in a
community is called an ___________.
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Ecosystem
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What is the study of the interaction of living
things with one another and their environment?
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Ecology
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What are organisms that make their own food from
sunlight called?
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Producers
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What do you call an organism that eats only
animals?
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200
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Carnivore
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What do you call an organism that eats only
plants?
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300
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Herbivore
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What do you call an organism that eats both
plants and animals?
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Omnivore
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What type of organism breaks down (eats) dead
things and recycles them back into the Earth?
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Decomposer
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What is a diagram that shows how energy flows
from one organism to another?
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Food Chain
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What do you call the diagram that shows ALL the
feeding relationships between living things in an
ecosystem?
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Food Web
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What is the triangular diagram that shows an
ecosystems loss of energy?
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Energy Pyramid
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What type of organisms are located at the base of
the energy pyramid?
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Producers
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Underground layer of water in permeable rock
water can be extracted with a well.
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Aquifer
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If there are 5000 kcal of energy at the producer
level, how much energy will be present at the
tertiary consumer level?
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5 kcal
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The combined weight/amount of organisms in a
trophic level
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Biomass
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When matter changes from solid directly to gas
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Sublimation
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Bacteria or lightning convert nitrogen gas into
ammonia
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Nitrogen fixation
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Soil bacteria convert nitrates back to nitrogen
gas
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Denitrification
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What do you call the part of Earth where life
exists including deep in the ocean and high in
the sky?
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Biosphere
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Matter passing from one organism to another and
from one part of the biosphere to another
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Biochemical cycles
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Water evaporating out of plant leaves
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Transpiration
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Animals that eat only dead things scavengers
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Detritivores
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Group of ecosystems that have the same climate
and similar dominant communities
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Biome
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