Ecology study

Front

What is Ecology?

Back

Study of the interactions between organisms

and their environments.

Front

What does an organism’s environment consists of?

Back

Abiotic and biotic factors.

Front

What are Biotic Factors?

Back

Living parts of an

ecosystem.

Front

What are some examples of biotic factors?

Back

Prokaryotes,

microbes, protists,

fungi, plants and

animals.

Front

What are Abiotic Factors?

Back

Non-living physical

and chemical

conditions of an

ecosystem.

Front

What are some examples of abiotic factors?

Back

Sun, water, soil, air,

temperature, wind, fire.

Front

What is an Ecosystem?

Back

A community of

all the organisms that live in

a particular place together

with their non-living

physical environment.

Front

What are the 6 interactions among animals?

Back

Competition, Predation, Symbiosis, Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism.

Front

What is Competition?

Back

When organisms try to

use the same resources. One of the 2 organisms ends up dying out since 2 species cannot occupy the same resource in the

same habitat at the

same time.

Front

What is Predation?

Back

An organism (Predator) hunts and kills another organism (Prey) for

food. Ex: Lion and Rabbit.