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Ecology Study Guide
1.
What is ecology?
2.
Put these in order of complexity: biome, organism, population, community, and ecosystem.
3.
Give an example of each:
a. Biome:
b. Organism:
c. Population:
d. Community:
e. Ecosystem:
4.
Create a food web with the following: producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, decomposer.
Label an autotroph and heterotroph
5.
Does the primary consumer receive all the energy from the producer? If not, where does the energy
go?
6.
The most abundant chemical elements in living things are?
7.
Carbon is moved from the atmosphere to plants by the process of _____________________. Its
chemical formula is:
8.
Carbon is moved from animals to the atmosphere by the process of _____________________. Its
chemical formula is:
9.
Nitrogen needs what organism to cycle in the biosphere?
10.
Nitrogen in the soil is moved to the plants through _________________________________________
(identify the organism).
11.
Nitrogen in the soil is moved to the atmosphere through _____________________________________
(identify the organism).
Review these learning targets. Can you confidently do all of them?
1.
I know what ecology is.
2.
I can identify the levels of ecological organization.
3.
I can describe how energy flows through an ecosystem.
4.
I can identify photosynthesis and cellular respiration by their products and reactants.
5.
I can describe how matter flows through an ecosystem.
6.
I can list the most abundant elements in living things.
7.
I can understand human impact on the carbon and nitrogen cycles.