Predation, Parasitism, Commensalism, Mutualism | Definitions | Levels of Organization | Theory of Evolution | Energy Transfer |
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What is predation?
Hawk eating a rabbit.
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What is environmental science?
The study of how humans interact with the environment.
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What is a population?
A group of the same species such as a herd of cows.
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What is Natural Selection?
One animal surviving better because of a trait is an example if this.
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What is an autotroph?
A plant is an autotroph or heterotroph.
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What is parasitism?
A leech on a persons leg.
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What is evolution?
The change in a species over time is called this.
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What is an organism?
A single animal
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What is an adaptation?
A mutation that helps an organism survive better is an example of an ______________.
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What is an omnivore?
A pig is an example of a carnivore, omnivore or herbivore?
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What is mutualism?
A bird picking ticks off of a cow.
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What is any organism that eats others?
Give an example of a heterotroph.
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What is a ecosystem?
All the communities and the physical environment is this.
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What is coevolution?
Two species evolving in response to each other is called this.
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What is 90%?
The amount of energy lost from one trophic level to the next.
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What is commensalism?
A remora swimming along with a shark eating scraps from the shark's meals.
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What is a niche?
An organism's role in its community is called this.
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What a community?
A pack of wolves hunting a herd of reindeer is an example of a _________________ interaction.
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What is resistance?
A bacteria not being effected by and antibiotic is an example of this.
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What is photosynthesis?
This process is used by producers to make energy from the sun's light.
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What is commensalism?
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other gets neither helped nor harmed.
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What is non-living object?
Define abiotic and provide an example.
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What is the biosphere?
All the ecosystems on earth.
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What is artificial selection?
A farmer picking larger tomatoes for seeds is an example of this type of selection.
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What is a herbivore?
The first heterotroph on a trophic pyramid are what type of consumer?
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