Ecology test

What is ecology?

• study of the interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their enviornment

• studies interactions between individual organisms and their environments

• the study of the interrelationships of organisms with their environment and each other,

• a synopsis of animal and plant life with their whole environment is a synthesis of almost all biological branches

How much energy is transferred to each trophic level?

The rest of energy is lost as? and what percent?

What are biotic factors?

• any nonliving part of the enviornment

• all livings and once living organisms in an ecosystem

an example of an biotic factor is?

• phytoplankton

• humidty

• climate

what is an abiotic factor?

• a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment

• any nonliving part of the enviornment

an example of an abiotic factor?

• oysters

• bacteria

• light

• blue crabs

what is an consumer?

• a category that belongs within the food chain of an ecosystem

• has to consume others food for energy

• the organisms in most trophic levels in a food chain, except for producers and decomposers.

• Consumers constitute the upper trophic levels

what cycle is this?

• nitrogen cycle

• carbon cyle

• water cycle

what cycle is this?

• water cycle

• carbon cycle

• nitrogen cycle