Biology Essentials- Communities Guided Viewing
Worksheet
Name: ___________________________________________
1: What is ecology?
Study of life in our planet
2: What is BBECPO? (Define each)
Biosphere: area wherever life exists in the planet
Biome: Similar climate areas
Ecosystems: Biotic and Abiotic factors
Community: Interacting Populations
Population: Group of individual
Organism: an individual
3: What is a community?
4: What is species
composition?
5: What is species diversity (biodiversity)?
Where
is the greatest species
diversity?
6: Explain the example of
symbiosis with
Leaf Cutter Ants and the fungus
and bacteria
on the
ant.
7: What is an exponential growth pattern?
Explain.
8: What are the limiting factors to
growth. Explain both density
dependent and density
independent factors.
9: What is a logistic growth pattern?
Explain.
10: What is the carrying capacity?
Define.
11: What is an age-structure diagram (population
pyramid)? How it is set-up? What does
it
tell you?
12: What is the shape of a population pyramid of a young
population (exponential growth)?
What is the shape of a population of a stable population (logistic
growth)?