PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY
What would happen if the sun was missing from our ecosystem? Life on earth would die. Life would find other energy sources. Only plants would die. Only herbivores would die.
A) Life on earth would die
Any given ecosystem will right itself given sufficient time, including all living and nonliving things affected by it. True False
False
Ecological systems can never be adequately understood. True False
False
Ecology is the study of the differences between plants and animals in their environment. True False
False
The relationships between organisms and their environment are peripheral. True False
False
Cycles in an environment, like the cycles of the seasons, have been designed and controlled by ______________________.
God
All living things affect all other living things. True False
True
Everything living and nonliving are connected to everything else. True False
True
What part of the ecosystem could not survive without the other components? carnivores herbivores decomposers plants
carnivores
An ecosystem may consist of more than one __________________ in a defined locale.
community
A framework which attempts to show the interrelationships of plants, animals, and the environment in a defined area is called a(n) _______________________.
ecosystem
It is now understood that life requires a simultaneous coexistence of numerous interdependent cycles. This fact essentially precludes _____________________ processes.
evolutionary
Each component of an ecosystem is: interdependent self sustaining unrelated independent
interdependent
Ecology is made up of: many sciences mathematics the science of biology animals
many sciences
Interrelationship implies a(n) _____________________ relationship.
mutual
The process of decomposition commonly releases into the environment: oxygen and helium nitrogen and carbon neon and argon iron and lead
nitrogen and carbon
The basic materials of which all living things are formed are ____________________ substances.
nonliving
The word ecology comes from Greek words meaning: study of the environment study of houses study of energy study of life
study of houses
(Select all that apply.) Choose the main components of an ecosystem. sun water plants nitrogen climate moon decomposers soil herbivores carnivores
sun water plants climate decomposers soil herbivores carnivores