Ecology Review

Ecology is the study of _______

• Living things interacting with each other

• Living and non-living things interacting

• Abiotic factors

• Feeding patterns

Rainfall and sunlight are

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

One feeding pattern is a

• Food chain

• Food web

Autotrophs

• Must consume others for energy and food

• Can make their own food

• Eat sunlight

Primary consumers are typically

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

• Detrivore

A consumer is called a(n)

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Producer

• Photosynthetic

An organism that eats both plants and animals is

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Detrivore

• Omnivore

When both species benefit it is

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Predator-prey

Counting the organisms in an area is an example of

• Direct observation

• Indirect observation

• Sampling

• Mark and recapture

When organisms move into an area it is called

• Birth

• Death

• Immigration

• Emigration