13. Ecology & Species

Question 1

Species which can live almost everywhere, but rare in those certain locations

Answer 1

Puma

Question 2

Species restricted to habitats with high elevation or cold

Answer 2

American Pika

Question 3

Abiotic factors which cannot be used up (ex. temperature)

Answer 3

Conditions

Question 4

Factors which can be used up and consumed (ex. food)

Answer 4

Resources

Question 5

Competition, predation, mutualism

Answer 5

Species interactions

Question 6

Ongoing mass extinction, mainly as a result of human activities

Answer 6

The sixth extinction

Question 7

The study of relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings

Answer 7

Ecology

Question 8

Dispersal, conditions, resources, species interactions

Answer 8

Limiting factors

Question 9

Intensity of conditions in a species habitat

Answer 9

Environmental gradient

Question 10

All the individuals of the same species in one place at one time

Answer 10

Population

Question 11

All the species living together in one place at one time

Answer 11

Community

Question 12

All the species plus non-living environment

Answer 12

Ecosystem

Question 13

Geographical abundance of species, can show that species can be abundant or rare at different spatial scales

Answer 13

Spatial scale of abundance of species

Question 14

Abundance of species over time, shows that the abundance over time is not static

Answer 14

Temporal scale of abundance of species

Question 15

How a community changes following disturbance

Answer 15

Ecological succession

Question 16

Who proposed the Endosymbiotic theory

Answer 16

Lynn Margulis

Question 17

Who proposed that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply

Answer 17

Thomas Malthus