ecosystem study guide
Commensalism
2 organisms 1 benefit and other does not
Ecosystem
All living things and non-living things that interact.
Community
All the different populations that live together in an area.
What is ecology?
Ecology is the study of biotic and abiotic factors of an ecosystem and the interactions between them.
Ecology
How organisms interact with each other and their environment.
Predation
One animal preying on another one attack
Show the levels of organization in an ecosystem. Start with the smallest unit.
Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem
Name three populations found in a prairie ecosystem.
Prairie Dogs, Burrowing Owls, Rattle Snakes
Abiotic Factor
The non-living parts of an organism's habitat.
The parts of an organism's environment that are living or once living, and interact with the organisms are (fill in the blank).
biotic factors
What is an example of what lives in a prairie ecosystem?
grass
Mutualism
2 organisms of different species exists in a relTionship where each benefits from the other
Parasitism
2 things and one lives off the other one
Species
A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
Population
All the members of one species living in a particular area.
Habitat
An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
Organism
An organism is a living thing.
Competition
Contest
True or False (if false state what is false): The nonliving things that interact with an organism are called biotic factors.
False, change biotic factors to abiotic factors
True or False (if false state what is false): All the members of one community living in a particular area make up a population.
False, change community to species
True or False (if false state what is false): Oxygen is an abiotic factor in the environment that is important for plants to make their own food.
False, oxygen is changed to sunlight or water
Name four abiotic factors found in a prairie ecosystem.
Sunlight, Soil, Temperature, Oxygen, Water
Biotic Factor
The parts of a habitat that are living, or once, and interact with an organism.
True or False (if false state what is false): A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring are called a species.
True
True or False (if false state what is false): All the organisms that live in a particular area and their nonliving make up an ecosystem.
True
True or False (if false state what is false): The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment is called ecology.
True
What are the five abiotic factors?
Water, Oxygen, Temperature, Soil, Sunlight
What is an example of what a biotic factor?
bacteria
All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n) (fill in the blank).
community
All the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular area make up a(n) (fill in the blank).
ecosystem
Write a list that lists the levels of an ecosystem in order from largest to smallest?
ecosystem, community, population, organism
An environment that provides the things that a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce is its (fill in the blank).
habitat
An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other things it needs to live grow and reproduce from (fill in the blank).
habitat
