Chapter 2 Test Study Guide
1. Through which process is water lost to the abiotic parts of the biosphere from the biotic parts.
2. Someone who studies how several species in an area interact, is studying what?
3. How is nitrogen released to the abiotic parts of the biosphere?
4. What is the biological organization level that involves several species in an area interact among each other and with the biotic parts of the environment?
5. Where an organism lives out its life is know as its ___?
6. What amount of energy is lost at each step of a food chain?
7. As you move through a food chain or web does the amount of available energy increase or decrease?
8. Know each of the relationships that we have discussed?
9. The ___ consists of evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, runoff, and respiration.
10. Omnivores, carnivores, herbivores, scavengers, and decomposers are all ____.
11. Ecosystems, biotic factors, and abiotic factors make up the ___.
12. Organisms, population, and community make up the ___.
13. Parasitism, commensalisms, and mutualism are examples of__.
14. Trophic levels and food chains are part of a ___.
15. In a pond ecosystem, ducks, mosquitoes, pond plants, and frogs are ____ factors.
16. Both the alga and the fungus are benefited from their relationship in a lichen. This relationship is one of ____.
17. Water, carbon, and nitrogen are released back into the atmosphere during ___.
18. Energy that passes through a food chain is lost to the environment as ____.
19. To explain and show how the amount of living materials at each trophic level of a food chain changes you could use a ____.
20. Before plants can reuse many organic materials, the materials must be broken down by ____.
21. Wind, humidity, and rocks are all ____ in a terrestrial ecosystem.
22. In an ecological classification, the next smallest level after the biosphere is the ___.
23. The study of how living things relate to each other and to their environment is called what?
24. The relationship between organisms in which both organisms benefit is called what?
25. The network of interconnected food chains is called what?
26. The relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited is called what?
27. The layer of Earth that supports life is called what?
28. What feeds on dead organisms?
29. What is a simple model for showing how matter and energy move through an ecosystem?
30. What is a group formed by several populations?
31. What manufactures food using energy from the sun or from chemical compounds?
32. What is the relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits at the expense of another?
33. What is the place where an organism spends its life called?
34. What are the steps in the passage of energy and matter through an ecosystem called?
35. What obtains energy and nutrients from autotrophs?
36. What breaks down dead organisms?