Ecology Unit Test

Tomorrow is your test over the Ecology Unit.  You will be answering questions over the following topics:

What is Ecology?
How are organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, and biospheres connected?
Abiotic vs. Biotic Factors
Density-Dependent and Density-Independent Factors
Emigration, Immigration, Birth Rate, and Death Rate
Population Growth Chart
Habitat vs Niche
Competition vs. Predation
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Food Chain and Food Webs
Energy Pyramid with Calculation

What do you need to practice before taking your test?

Ecology Columns

What is the purpose of you putting together an Ecology Column?

Ecosystem

What is an ecosystem?  What is necessary for an ecosystem to function properly?

Owl Pellet

How did the Owl Pellet help you to understand the Ecosystem that the owl's live in?

Owl Pellet

How can an Owl Pellet teach us about Ecosystems and about Food webs and Food chains?

Food Chain

Identify which organism represents each Trophic Levels in the food chain above.

Producers

What are producers? How much energy do they have (percentage)?

Food Webs

What is a food web? What do they show you?

Symbiotic Relationships

What do all 3 symbiotic relationships have in common?

Parasitism

Give an example of parasitism other than a tapeworm, roundworm, or ringworm.

Symbiotic Relationships

What are the 3 types of symbiotic relationships?  Describe each of them.

commensalism

What is commensalism?  Give an example.

competition and predation

What is the difference between competition and predation?

Symbiotic Relationships

What are the 3 different types of symbiotic relationships? Give your own example for each.

Predation and Competition

What is predation and competition?  Give your own example for each.