Ecosystem Basics Quiz

A series of predictable and orderly changes within an ecosystem over time.

Succession that occurs on surfaces where no soil exists.

Succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil.

<p>First species to populate an area during primary succession.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stable community that no longer goes through major ecological changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contains all the combined portions of the planet in which life exists.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any living thing in the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any physical or non-living factor in the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any living thing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Group of organisms so similar in their DNA that they are able to breed and produce fertile offspring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Able to bear children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unable to bear children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Group of the same species living in the same place at the same time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Different populations living in the same place at the same time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the organisms and their physical surroundings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and similar dominant plant and animal communities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The role an organism plays in its environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Where an organism lives out its life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurs when different organisms attempt to use a resource in the same place at the same time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any necessity of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One organism hunts down another for food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hunter or trapper.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The organism that gets eaten.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relationship between two different species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bees and flowers: bees eat nectar from the flower and the flower gets pollinated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits but the other is not harmed nor helped.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Remora and shark - remora gets the shark's leftovers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organism that feeds on another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A tick feeding off a dog.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organism that a parasite feeds off of.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sunlight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organism that makes its own food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organism that has to eat for energy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All plants, some bacteria, all algae.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conversion of radiant energy into chemical energy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Converting inorganic molecules into organic food molecules.</p> Signup and view all the answers