Final Exam - Ecology Review

The majority of the ecology section of the final exam is vocabulary.
Match each word to its definition

1. Consumes dead tissue or decaying organisms
2. Producers (organisms that make their own food) are also called:
3. Relationship where members of the same species live in close association
4. Number of different species in an area
5. The physical area in which an organism lives
6. An organism's "way of life"
7. Omnivores, herbivores and carnivores are all:
8. Biome where trees lose their leaves in the fall
9. Rate of population increases steadily, creating a J shaped graph
10. Evergreen trees are found in this biome
11. Detritivores, consume decaying things or waste
12. The study of relationships between organisms and environment
13. All the populations in an area make up this
14. Biome where you find polar bears and snowshoe rabbits
15. An animal that eats both plants and animals
16. All the interacting components of an area (living & nonliving)
17. The act of one organism feeding upon another
18. The number of individuals a habitat can support
19. Biome that has cactus and reptiles
20. Method of determining population size (2 things)
21. Eats plants
22. Eats meat
23. Group of organisms of the same species in the same area
24. Primary consumers can be (2 things):

You should also be able to interpret a food web and identify the producers, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, omnivore, carnivore, herbivore