Ecology

What is an increase in average temperature due to trapped excess greenhouse gases?

What zone of ocean is the ocean over the continental shelf?

What is the abbreviation for carring capacity?

What are members of a single species living in one place at one time?

What are weather and flooding examples of?

Food webs are more accurate because most pathways can follow many sequences of energy transfer.

How many biomoes exists?

What is contastnt if the birth rate and death rate are equal?

What is the thin layer that holds all living things?

What is a path of energy flow with multiple paths?

What is competition that leads to one species taking over another by pushing the other species out?

Which of the following biomes has frequent fires set by lightning, as well as elephants and giraffes?

What is the organic material in an ecosystem?         

What is it called when organisms share resources?

What is the distribution called when individuals spread as far apart as possible? 

What is an interaction in which one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped?

Humans are generalists because they feed on many different types of foods and can live almost everywhere. 

What is it called when ammonia converted into nitrites and nitrates?

What is it called when Individuals are clustered around food resources?

What eats other consumers?

Which of the following biomes has permafrost where orignal remains of mammoths have been discovered?

What is the population size the environment can support for a long time?

What is where an organism lives?

Density dependent is determined by the number of individuals in a population

More species richness means more links between species. They can withstand greater disturbances and are more stable.

What is a state of reduced metabolic activity in animals?

What are all abiotic and biotic factors in an area?

Humans causing a decrease in species richness in certain environments by overhunting and destruction of habitats.

What cannot make their own food and must get it from eating other organisms or organic wastes?

Which of the following biomes gets less than 25 cm of rain yearly, have cacti and snakes?

What type of population would be susceptible to extinction from habitat destruction and disease?

What is a single path of energy flow?

What curve is shown with the exponential growth model?

What is it called when a species has a narrow niche?

Which of the following biomes has evergreen shrubs, as well as coyotes, deer, rabbits, and squirrels?

What is an interaction that benefits both species?

What can cause decay by breaking down the complex molecules in dead tissues and wastes into simpler molecules?

What are organisms interacting in an area?

What eats plants?

Many birds migrate from the US to Central America or South America. Which is a consequence of migration?

A scientist finds no evidence of competition and states competition has never been there. Is this a valid conclusion?

What is it called when a parasite that lives inside its host like tape worms, pinworms, and plasmodium?  

Many birds migrate from the US to Central America or South America. Which of the following is a benefit of migration?

What is a it called when a harmless species resembles a poisonous or bad tasting species?

What is a range of conditions that a species can potentially tolerate and the range of resources it can potential use?

Which of the following are ways your body defends itself against parasites?

What is killing and consuming another organism?

What type of curve is the logistic growth model?

Which of the following is a characteristic of carrying capacity?

Knowledge of a pest organism’s tolerance limits can be used in pest control by changing its it cannot survive.

What is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment?

What is a long term strategy to avoid unfavorable conditions by moving to another, more favorable habitat?

When organisms affect and are affected by other organisms it is called?

What is permafrost?

What consumers that feed on “garbage” of an ecosystem (recently dead animals, fallen leaves and branches, animal wastes?

What eats both producers and consumers?

How can plants protect themselves from predators?

Which of the following biomes has plains and prairies, as well as bison and wolves?

What is the interaction in which one species benefits and the other is harmed?

Which of the following biomes is located at the equator and has an abundance of diversity?

What is the number of species and the abundance of each?

What is an interaction that benefits both species?

What is it called when a parasite that lives on the outside of a host like a flea, tick, or leech?

What is the sequences of species in a disturbed area?

What is it called when nitrates converted into nitrogen gas?

Knowledge of a pest's tolerence could be used to eliminate the pest by changing resources such as food or temperatures.

What is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and when it is inactive?

A scientist finds no evidence of competition and states competition never existed. Why isn't this a valid conclusion?

What is the number of species and the abundance of each

Density-independent is not determined by the number of individuals in a population.

What is the number of species?

What eats ecosystem garbage?

The difference between a food web and food chain is a food chain has one path of energy transfer while a web has many.

What is what a species actually uses?

What is it called when plants grow where bare rock once was?

What is energy and materials needed by a species?

A food web is a more complete picture than a food chain because a food chain only shows one sequence of energy transfer.

What type of distribution is it when Individuals dispersed by wind?