Ecology Vocabulary

What is a region on Earth that has a distinct climate?

• Ecology

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Biotic

What describes the 10% of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next?

• Decomposers

• Food Web

• Rule of 10

• Ecosystems

What is ecology?

• The study of life

• The study of animals

• The study of people

• The study of the levels of an individual's organism

How do producers, consumers, and decomposers interact?

• Decomposers break down dead consumers and producers

• Consumers eat producers and decomposers for energy

• Producers eat decomposers and consumers eat producers

• Producers eat everything

What are the factors that make up an ecosystem?

• Biotic and Abiotic

• Nonliving and living

• Consumers, producers, and decomposers

• Life

What is interdependency?

• Animals working together

• When elements within an ecosystem depend on each other to survive

• The interaction of individuals

• Consumers eating other consumers and producers

A carnivore would eat all of the following EXCEPT...

• Antelope

• Deer

• Grass

• Rabbit

A tapeworm would be an example of which type of symbiosis?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

What would an omnivore and herbivore BOTH eat?

• Sunlight

• Rabbit

• Deer

• Tree

What is symbiosis?

• The interaction between individuals of different biological species

• When elements within an ecosystem depend on each other to survive

• Living and nonliving components of an area

• The living components