What are groups of different populations living together in the same place at the same time called?

What is it called when you have groups of different populations along with their abiotic factors?

All of the living parts of the earth are

The temperate deciduous forest, the tropical rain forest, the desert, and the tundra are all examples of...

A duck, a dragonfly, a morel mushroom and a bobcat are all examples of...

Andrea is on the girls cross country team. She is heading out for a run when she comes across 20 Canadian geese. What level of organization is this group of Canadian geese?

Jacob is going out to his grandparents farm. On the farm is a stream that he likes to fish at. When he is fishing he sees many different species of fish as well as maple and oak trees and dragonflies. What Jacob is seeing is an example of what level of organization?

Abby is walking to school with her best friend Jaylyn. They begin talking about everything they see including the ash trees, grass, weeds, ants, and people. They also notice how cold it is, how there are several large puffy clouds out, and how the sun is just starting to come up. What level of organization are they discussing?

What is a group of ecosystems that share similar climates and types of organisms called?

Antonio and Javier are astronauts in space looking back at Earth and discussing how all the life on Earth interacts with each other as well as the nonliving things. What level of organization are they discussing?

What are the ecological levels of organization from smallest to the largest?

The snake is a predator to what prey in this food chain?

The frog is a predator to what prey in this food chain?

The frog is a prey to what predator in this food chain?

The grasshopper is a prey to what predator in this food chain?

Why is a deer classified as a herbivore?

Why is a racoon classified as an omnivore?

What are organisms that use other organisms for food in order to gain energy?

What type of organism makes its own food?

Which are decomposers?

A red wolf is a __________ and a ________.

From where do producers get their energy?

A living organism that puts materials from dead plants and animals back to the soil is called a ____________?

What do the arrows represent in this diagram?

Which is a producer?

What is this called?

What is this called?

What does a Primary Consumer eat?

A tertiary consumer has to be which type?

An animal that eats other animals is a....

In a food web, arrows point at:

What does a food web represent?

Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of:

__________ is an organism that eats BOTH plants and animals for energy.

If the grasshopper were to be removed completely from the food web, what organism would be most effected?

Which organism receives the least amount of energy from the producer?

What would happen to the bird if the green fish died out?

What does an energy pyramid show?

If there are 100 KJ of energy available at the secondary consumer level, how many KJ of energy are available at the producer level?

In which type of interaction does one animal eat another for energy and nutrients?

Which of the following is NOT a symbiotic relationship?

What term describes organisms striving for the same limited resources?

What type of competition is shown in this image?

What type of competition is shown in the image?

Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship in which what occurs between the organisms?

Fleas living within a mammal's fur describes this type of relationship:

A crab is protected from fish when an anemone rides on its shell. The anemone gets more food.

Orchid vines are skinny and grow on the trunk of trees to get more light and space with no negative effect.

When the population of predators gets too high...

An organism's ability to survive and reproduce

The idea that no two species within an ecosystem can occupy the exact same niche at the same time

An organism's _________ is defined as the environment in which it lives.

An organism's place in the biotic environment and its role in an ecosystem is

What is another name for evaporation of water through the leaves of plants?

Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are all forms of _____.

Which of the following best explains why nitrogen fixation must take place?

What gas is released by plants from the process of photosynthesis?

When nitrogen gas is turned in to a form that plants and animals can use is called

What organisms are responsible for Nitrogen Fixation?

What type of growth is shown in the graph?

Carrying capacity is defined as

Exponential growth is defined as

What is the carrying capacity for the population of seals?

The type of growth that occurs when disease and parasite are present (limiting factors).

How does competition increase/decrease the carrying capacity of an ecosystem for the competing animals?

If a population grows beyond carrying capacity, what can happen?

When birth rates are higher than death rate, the population size will

Immigration is defined as

Emigration is defined as

Two arctic fox are fighting with a polar bear for a sea lion carcass. One fox distracts the bear while the other eats. What type of limiting factor is the polar bear?

A group of elephants gets stuck in mud at the edge of the river from a recent mud slide. A lion waits for an elephant to get tired before it attacks. What is the limiting factor to the elephant population?

Which of these factors do not respond to the density of a population in an ecosystem?

Which of these limiting factors has an influence on the growth of a population based on its density?

What is formed during primary succession that doesn't need to be formed during secondary succession?

What type of succession is shown going from figure A to figure B?

After a forest fire, an ecosystem would start regrowth through -

Which catastrophic event will most likely have the effect of returning an ecosystem to primary succession?

Succession that occurs in an area with no soil

The first organisms to populate an ecosystem during succession (like lichens and moss) are