Exam 24: Principles of Ecology

Which classification is the best description of humans? ​

Match the following letters of a biomass pyramid of a lake with the statements below.  -herbivore fish ​

Most of the carbon on Earth is held in ____. ​

The simple food chain: grass → zebra → lion provides a good example of a pyramid of ____.

The living or ____________________ part of a community is made up of all of the organisms living together. ​

Which classification includes fungi and bacteria? ​

Nearly every ecosystem utilizes ____. ​

The sequence in which the first species to inhabit an area are replaced by others is ____________________. ​

Secondary succession occurs ____. ​

What accounts for the majority of mass within a biomass pyramid of a lake? ​

The large-scale community of organisms in a major ecological setting is a(n)____. ​

Explain the flow of water in the global water cycle.

Farmland that is under regular and continued tillage will not ____.

An organism in an ecosystem that feeds off others is a(n)____. ​

The graphical representation of the combined weight of an ecosystem's organism is a(n)____.

What is the study of the interactions of organisms with one another and their physical environment? ​

A(n)____________________ is the interacting populations of all the species in a habitat. ​

All living organisms are dependent upon plants because ____. ​

Most atmospheric carbon is in the form of ____. ​

The interacting populations of all species within a habitat is a(n)____. ​