Thursday, September 26, 2013

Ecology (Test 1) Study Guide Answers


  1. Individual - one organism; Population - a group of the same organism; Community - all living (biotic) factors in an area; Ecosystem - all the living and nonliving (abiotic) factors in an area; Biome - similar ecosystems (example: desert, tundra, rainforest); Biosphere - where all life exists on earth.
  2. (we'll go over this in class)
  3. (we'll go over this in class)
  4. population, abiotic factors, ecosystem, biosphere, biotic factors
  5. A food web shows ALL of the feeding relationships within an ecosystem. A food chain only shows a partial (linear) pathway of energy.
Predator Prey Relationship
  1. Increasing
  2. Increasing
  3. As the moose population increased, there was more food available for the wolves which in turn resulted in the increase of the wolf population.

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