Ecology Study Guide
Complete the following questions on your own sheet of paper.
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Define: habitat, biotic, abiotic
Name the 5 levels of organization within an environment and tell
what organisms are included in each.
What is a trophic level?
List organisms that may be found on each level of the energy
pyramid (level 1= bottom, level 4= top)
Define: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
Create a food chain containing 4 organisms (pictures not required).
What is a food web?
Define: niche, symbiosis
What are the factors included in an organism’s niche?
Name two organisms that are in a predatory relationship.
Name two adaptations predators have developed to help them
catch prey.
Name two adaptations prey have developed to avoid being eaten.
List two parasites that live inside of their host and two that live
outside of their host.
What is mutualism? Give an example.
What is competition? Give an example of a resource that
organisms can fight over.
What is logistic growth?
What type of graph represents logistic growth?
What is exponential growth?
What type of graph represents exponential growth?
What is carrying capacity
Define: density independent factor, density dependent factor
Give examples of density independent factors.
Give examples of density dependent factors.
List the different types of nutrient cycles.
What plays the most important role in the nitrogen cycle?
What processes release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Explain how plants play a role in the water cycle (hint:
transpiration).
What element is dissolved in soil and water as rocks erode?
Ecology Study Guide
Complete the following questions on your own sheet of paper.
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Define: habitat, biotic, abiotic
Name the 5 levels of organization within an environment and tell
what organisms are included in each.
What is a trophic level?
List organisms that may be found on each level of the energy
pyramid (level 1= bottom, level 4= top)
Define: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
Create a food chain containing 4 organisms (pictures not required).
What is a food web?
Define: niche, symbiosis
What are the factors included in an organism’s niche?
Name two organisms that are in a predatory relationship.
Name two adaptations predators have developed to help them
catch prey.
Name two adaptations prey have developed to avoid being eaten.
List two parasites that live inside of their host and two that live
outside of their host.
What is mutualism? Give an example.
What is competition? Give an example of a resource that
organisms can fight over.
What is logistic growth?
What type of graph represents logistic growth?
What is exponential growth?
What type of graph represents exponential growth?
What is carrying capacity
Define: density independent factor, density dependent factor
Give examples of density independent factors.
Give examples of density dependent factors.
List the different types of nutrient cycles.
What plays the most important role in the nitrogen cycle?
What processes release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Explain how plants play a role in the water cycle (hint:
transpiration).
What element is dissolved in soil and water as rocks erode?
Ecology Study Guide
Complete the following questions on your own sheet of paper.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
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23.
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25.
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27.
28.
Define: habitat, biotic, abiotic
Name the 5 levels of organization within an environment and tell
what organisms are included in each.
What is a trophic level?
List organisms that may be found on each level of the energy
pyramid (level 1= bottom, level 4= top)
Define: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
Create a food chain containing 4 organisms (pictures not required).
What is a food web?
Define: niche, symbiosis
What are the factors included in an organism’s niche?
Name two organisms that are in a predatory relationship.
Name two adaptations predators have developed to help them
catch prey.
Name two adaptations prey have developed to avoid being eaten.
List two parasites that live inside of their host and two that live
outside of their host.
What is mutualism? Give an example.
What is competition? Give an example of a resource that
organisms can fight over.
What is logistic growth?
What type of graph represents logistic growth?
What is exponential growth?
What type of graph represents exponential growth?
What is carrying capacity
Define: density independent factor, density dependent factor
Give examples of density independent factors.
Give examples of density dependent factors.
List the different types of nutrient cycles.
What plays the most important role in the nitrogen cycle?
What processes release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Explain how plants play a role in the water cycle (hint:
transpiration).
What element is dissolved in soil and water as rocks erode?
Ecology Study Guide
Complete the following questions on your own sheet of paper.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
Define: habitat, biotic, abiotic
Name the 5 levels of organization within an environment and tell
what organisms are included in each.
What is a trophic level?
List organisms that may be found on each level of the energy
pyramid (level 1= bottom, level 4= top)
Define: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore
Create a food chain containing 4 organisms (pictures not required).
What is a food web?
Define: niche, symbiosis
What are the factors included in an organism’s niche?
Name two organisms that are in a predatory relationship.
Name two adaptations predators have developed to help them
catch prey.
Name two adaptations prey have developed to avoid being eaten.
List two parasites that live inside of their host and two that live
outside of their host.
What is mutualism? Give an example.
What is competition? Give an example of a resource that
organisms can fight over.
What is logistic growth?
What type of graph represents logistic growth?
What is exponential growth?
What type of graph represents exponential growth?
What is carrying capacity
Define: density independent factor, density dependent factor
Give examples of density independent factors.
Give examples of density dependent factors.
List the different types of nutrient cycles.
What plays the most important role in the nitrogen cycle?
What processes release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Explain how plants play a role in the water cycle (hint:
transpiration).
What element is dissolved in soil and water as rocks erode?