Ecology Vocabulary Test

The accumulation of substances, such as pesticides, or other chemicals in an organism.

• Ecology

• Eutrophication

• Red Tide

• Bioaccumulation

colonization of bear rock by pioneer species

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

• Biodiversity

• Ecosystem Stability

A visible chart that depicts the earth's food chain or food web from primary producers to tertiary consumers as a process which shows how energy is transferred between organisms that eat each other. The energy decreases as you move from the bottom to the top.

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Energy Pyramid

A symbiotic relationship in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is generally harmed.

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment

• Biology

• Geology

• Ecology

The relationship between species that attempt to use the same limited resource

• Competition

• Coevolution

• Commensalism

The pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Energy Graph

The series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, chiefly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.

• Water Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

A major ecological community of organisms adapted to a particular climatic or environmental condition on a large geographic area in which they occur.

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Community

Chemical reactions in which nitrogen from the atmosphere is fixed in compounds in soil or water, assimilated by plants and animals, released to the soil and water through decomposition, and returned to the atmosphere through denitrification.

• Water Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Carbon Cycle