WHAT AM I? Ecology (CS 6)

QUESTION / ANSWER
  1. I am all of the non-living factors of the environment
/ Abiotic
  1. I am all the living parts of the environment
/ Biotic
  1. I am a grouping of several species living in the same area
/ Community
  1. I am a grouping of a single species in the same area
/ Population
  1. I am all the populations and abiotic factors in an area
/ Ecosystem
  1. I am the environment that a species prefers
/ Habitat
  1. I am what they call ecosystems with similar characteristics
/ Biome
  1. I am the organism that generally defines a biome
/ Plants
  1. I mean “self feeding”, and can make my own food
/ Autotroph
  1. I mean “other feeding”, and must eat other organisms for energy
/ Heterotroph
  1. I am the bottom of a biomass pyramid, and am always an autotroph
/ Primary producer
  1. I am the 2nd step in a biomass pyramid, and eat primary producers
/ Primary consumers
  1. I am the general name for an organism that feed on dead material from all tropic levels
/ Decomposer
  1. I am the name for an organism that only eats plants
/ Herbivore
  1. I am the name for an organism that eats plants and animals
/ Omnivore
  1. I am the name for an organism that only eats animals
/ Carnivore
  1. I am what they call an animal that eats dead animals
/ Scavenger
  1. I am another name for the 4th trophic level
/ Tertiary consumer
  1. I identify the kind of food an organism uses
/ Trophic level
  1. I am the amount of energy that transfers from one trophic level to the next
/ 10%
  1. I am a tool used to calculate how many organism a area of primary producers can support
/ Biomass pyramid
  1. I am the buildup of toxins in the top consumers
/ Biological magnification
  1. I show the one-way feeding patterns of a set of organisms
/ Food chain
  1. I show the interconnected feeding patterns of many species
/ Food webs
  1. I am a relationship between two species and mean to “live together”
/ Symbiosis
  1. I am the type of symbiosis where one individual is harmed, and the other benefits
/ Parasitism
  1. I am the type of symbiosis where both individuals benefit
/ Mutualism
  1. I am the type of symbiosis where one individual is not affected, and the other benefits
/ Commensalism
  1. I am the hunting of one species by another, with the intent to kill
/ Predation
  1. I am the interaction between two individuals where both species are harmed
/ Competition
  1. I am the change is species in an area over time
/ Ecological succession
  1. I am the type of succession that starts on bare rock and requires lichens
/ Primary succession
  1. I am the type of succession that starts in an area that has been disturbed
/ Secondary succession
  1. I am what they call an area that is stable and tends to have large deciduous trees
/ Climax community
  1. I am the type of population growth that doubles every generation
/ Exponential growth
  1. I am the type of population growth that is represented by an “S curve”, because it levels off
/ Logistic growth
  1. I am the maximum number of individuals a population can support
/ Carrying capacity
  1. I am a limiting factor that is directly related to the size of a population
/ Density dependent
  1. I am a limiting factor that affects a population regardless of it’s size
/ Density independent
  1. I am the chemical that is the basic building block of all life
/ Carbon
  1. I am the intact of solar energy, water and carbon dioxide to make glucose and oxygen
/ Photosynthesis
  1. I am the breakdown of glucose in the mitochondria that produces ATP, water and carbon dioxide
/ Cellular respiration
  1. I am the characteristic of life that means to make more of yourself
/ Reproduction
  1. I am the characteristic of life that means to get bigger
/ Growth
  1. I am the characteristic of life that means to maintain balance
/ Homoeostasis
  1. I am the characteristic of life that means to interact with your environment
/ Response
  1. I am the characteristic of life that means to breakdown nutrients
/ Metabolism
  1. I am the characteristic of life that means to be made of smaller self regulating units
/ Cells
  1. I am the type of species that increases biodiversity by keeping the number of each species in balance
/ Keystone Species
  1. I am a species that is brought into a new environment and outcompetes the ones already there, because it has no predators or diseases.
/ Invasive Species