Ecology Exam REVIEW GUIDE!
- All ecosystems involve two different factors interacting with each other. What are they?
- What are biotic factors? Give 2 examples
- What are abiotic factors? Give 2 examples.
- What is a decomposer?
- What is a carnivore?
- What are consumers?
- What is an autotroph?
- Give an example of a consumer.
- Give an example of a decomposer
- Give an example of a producer.
- ALL food chains, food webs, and food pyramids start with which organism?
- Plants are producers that use the sun to make chemical energy. What is the chemical energy (food) that plants make?
- What do the arrows in a food chain represent?
- What is a food web?
- Why are plants always at the base of ecological pyramids?
- For an ecosystem to be stable, should there be more predators or prey, and why?
- What type of energy is passed up the ecological pyramid?
- What happens to energy as you move up the pyramid?
- Which organisms use solar energy?
- What process is powered by solar energy?
- What is another name for chemical energy?
- What is ATP used for?
- What is the process in the mitochondria that creates ATP?
- Can ATP be transferred among cells or organisms?
- What is carrying capacity?
- What happens when a population reaches carrying capacity?
- What is dynamic equilibrium?
- What is biodiversity?
- Why is biodiversity important?
- What is the gradual growth of an ecosystem called?
- New organisms move into the ecosystem at each step of succession. What does this allow for?
- Do stable ecosystems have more or less biodiversity?
- What are fossil fuels?
- What is the removal of trees from stable ecosystems called?
- Why is the farming of a single crop harmful to the environment?
- Give three examples of renewable sources of energy.
- Why are fossil fuels nonrenewable?
- How does pollution affect the atmosphere?
- How does pollution affect the water?
- How does pollution affect the land?