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Name ___________________________________________ per ____ date __________ ECOLOGY UNIT QUIZ Vocabulary Review & Practice II ECOLOGY NICHE ENVIRONMENT BIODIVERSITY RESPIRATION HABITAT MIMICRY PRODUCER BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES FOOD WEB FACILITATION ABIOTIC DETRITUS ECOSYSTEM NITROGEN CYCLE DENSITY-DEPENDENT FACTOR 1. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. BIOTIC 2nd COMMUNITY POPULATION PHOTOSYNTHESIS BIOMASS CONSUMER CARBON CYCLE DECOMPOSER FOOD CHAIN 1st LAW thermodynamics SYMBIOSIS DENSITY-INDEPENDENT FACTOR LAW thermodynamics CARRYING CAPACITY This scientific law describes how energy cannot be created or destroyed, it will only change form The study of self-sustaining biological systems that result from complex relationships between living organisms and their nonliving environment. Anything alive or once alive, made of organic molecules. The total mass of living organisms (total organic matter) in a given area or given trophic level. A group of many different species living close enough to interact, in the same area, at the same time Dead animal and plant matter, and animal wastes Organisms of the same species, living in the same area, at the same time This scientific law describes how whenever energy changes from one form to another form some of that energy is always lost as heat A population has reached this level within its ecosystem if it is using all of its available resources and thus the population size has stopped growing and remains fairly stable. An organism that can capture a maximum of 10% of the energy captured by producers Complex process of how water, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other nutrients necessary for life are recycled through ecosystems from organic matter to inorganic matter and back The role or position a species occupies in its ecosystem; how it contributes to its function, how it captures energy, where it fits in the system Trophic cascade is another way to refer to this community interaction where the activities of one species benefit a large portion of the rest of the ecosystem. A strategy to avoid predation that likely evolved due to two unrelated species looking similar by chance; one poisonous and the other just happened to look like the poisonous one. The range or type of environmental conditions required by a particular species to survive This biogeochemical cycle is sometimes called the Earth’s thermostat because of its direct effect on temperature regulation of the planet; when this cycle is out of balance so is global temperature A complex diagram showing the interconnected web of all the different feeding relationships within a specific ecosystem An organism that produces its own food (organic molecules) using sunlight, water, and CO2 (carbon dioxide) A community interaction between two or more specific species that has evolved over time, includes parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism One possible route of energy transfer in an ecosystem, beginning with one type of producer and ending with the last consumer All the biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) things that surround an organism An organism that consumes and breaks down dead organic matter into simpler molecules which can then be used by other organisms An organism that does not photosynthesize but captures energy by eating or consuming other organisms These factors will have a greater effect on population growth as the population continues to increase, within the same area. Anything not alive or never was alive, does not contain organic molecules. The process by which animals, plants, and other aerobic cells utilize oxygen to break down glucose, producing ATP for cells, and carbon dioxide as a waste product The process by which green plants and algae use CO2 (carbon dioxide), water, and sunlight to produce organic molecules for energy storage (and give off oxygen as waste). The number of different species of living things living within a specific geographic area This biogeochemical cycle happens mostly underground; different types of bacteria are largely responsible for making a critical ingredient in proteins available for living things to use These factors will affect population size regardless of how many members of the population are present- like extreme weather or a natural disaster. A complex biological system of interdependent biotic and abiotic parts, that functions to cycle matter and transfer energy in the right amount of time, across the right amount of space, to sustain life in that area.