study notes for chapter 1-2: environmental science chapter 1 section 1: everything is connected
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Study Notes for Chapter 1-2: Environmental Science
Chapter 1 Section 1: Everything Is Connected
1. A ______________ is made up of several different populations living together.
community
2. A ___________ is members of one species in an area.
population
3. A scientific study of the egrets, herons, marsh crabs, and cordgrass, but not the water or rocks in a salt mars is a study of the _________ level of organization.
community
4. Mammals, fish, birds, and plants that live in an environment are the ___________ part of an environment.biotic
5. Rocks, temperature, and water are the _________ part of the environment.
abiotic
6. The _________ levels of organization in the environment are organism, ___________, community, ____________, and biosphere.
five
populationecosystem
Chapter 1 Section 2: Living Things Need Energy
7. _________ prey on prairie dogs. In order for the prairie dog population to survive, there needs to be _________ more prairie dogs than coyotes.
Coyotes
many
8. Grass is eaten by a prairie dog. The prairie dog is eaten by a _________. This is an example of a food __________.
coyote
chain
9. Grass that gains energy from the sun is an example of a ____________.producer
10. Herbivores, _________, and omnivores are all ____________.
carnivoresconsumers
11. Arrows point in just one direction in a ___________ web because they show how energy goes to the animal that is ___________.
food
eating
12. Living things that make _________ from sunlight are called _________.
foodproducers
13. One food web arrow goes from a prairie dog to a coyote, showing that the coyote _________ the prairie dog.eats
14. Organisms that can make their own food from sunlight are called _____________.
producers
15. ________ kill old, injured, and diseased elk.
Wolves
Chapter 2 Section 2: Ecological Succession
16. _________ from lichens break rock up in the __________ step of rock changing to soil.
AcidsFirst
17. After one species disappears, the other species in the ecosystem are thrown out of ___________. balance
18. __________ enables a community to withstand changes.
Biodiversity
19. In _________ succession rock is slowly transformed into soil.
primary
20. Lichens are a __________ species.pioneer
21. __________ succession begins in an area composed of bare rock.
Primary
22. _________ succession is when a forest grows back after a forest fire.
Secondary
23. ___________ succession occurs in an area that has soil.
Secondary
24. The oldest trees in a forest are a called __________ species.Climax
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