Ecology Part 1 Question And Answers
habitat - ✔️✔️a physical environment where a species lives and becomes adapted
Ecology - ✔️✔️The study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment
Niche - ✔️✔️The role a species can assume in an ecosystem. This encompasses all the ways in which
a species interact with the ecosystem, such as what it eats.
Ecosystem - ✔️✔️A community of biotic organisms and their abiotic environment
Biotic - ✔️✔️Describes living factors in the environment, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi
Abiotic - ✔️✔️describes the nonliving part of the environment, including water, rocks, light, and
temperature
competitive exclusion principle - ✔️✔️no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat
for very long
Photosynthesis - ✔️✔️The process by which producers (plants) make glucose and oxygen using solar
energy
Mutualism - ✔️✔️A symbiotic relationship between two species in which both species benefit
Consumer - ✔️✔️An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Producer - ✔️✔️An organism that can make its own food either through photosynthesis or
chemosynthesis. The first trophic level in a food chain or food web
habitat - ✔️✔️a physical environment where a species lives and becomes adapted
Ecology - ✔️✔️The study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment
Niche - ✔️✔️The role a species can assume in an ecosystem. This encompasses all the ways in which
a species interact with the ecosystem, such as what it eats.
Ecosystem - ✔️✔️A community of biotic organisms and their abiotic environment
Biotic - ✔️✔️Describes living factors in the environment, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi
Abiotic - ✔️✔️describes the nonliving part of the environment, including water, rocks, light, and
temperature
competitive exclusion principle - ✔️✔️no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat
for very long
Photosynthesis - ✔️✔️The process by which producers (plants) make glucose and oxygen using solar
energy
Mutualism - ✔️✔️A symbiotic relationship between two species in which both species benefit
Consumer - ✔️✔️An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Producer - ✔️✔️An organism that can make its own food either through photosynthesis or
chemosynthesis. The first trophic level in a food chain or food web
