Biology Spring Final

Type of relationship where one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited:

Simple model that scientists use to show matter & energy flow through an ecosystem:

Scientific study of interactions between organisms & their environments:

Number of organisms of one species that an environment can support indefinitely:

Geological explanation for the movement of continents over the Earth:

Type of plate boundary where the plates grind by one another in opposite directions:

Those with favorable traits pass them on to offspring and survive:

What are abiotic factors?

Opening that melts plates as they pass over it, turning the area into volcanoes:

Model that shows all the possible feeding relationships at each trophic level:

All strategies & adaptations a species uses in its environment:

Portion of Earth that supports life:

Type of plate boundary where plates collide and one goes under another:

How many layers of the earth are their?

What was Pangaea?

Type of relationship where both organisms benefit:

Piece of evidence that shows what lived on earth at a certain time:

Scientist divided up the age of earth is called:

Group of same species that interbreed & live in the same area at the same time:

What are the 2 main types of biomes:

Time periods from biggest to smallest:

Whose theory was natural selection?

Common theory of how the universe and world began:

Organisms that use energy from sun or energy stored chemical compounds to make own nutrients:

Type of plate boundary where the plates move away from each other:

Whose theory was: Use it, gets stronger; don't use it, you lose it.

What are the levels (big to small):

Type of relationship where one organism is benefited and the other is harmed:

What are biotic factors?

Whose theory was common ancestry?

A group of organisms, all of one species, which interbreed and live in same place at same time:

The crustal plates that the surface of the earth sit on:

Large group of ecosystems that share same type of climax community:

Organisms that can't make own food & must feed on others for energy & nutrients:

Place where organism lives out its life: