Biodiversity

Question 0

The tool that shows the amount of needed organic material at each trophic level

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Biomass pyramid

Question 1

The variety of living organisms in an ecosystem

Answer 1

Biodiversity

Question 2

The desire of people to surround themselves with natural landscapes and objects

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Biophilia

Question 3

Causes of habitat degradation

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1. Fragmentation
2. Intro of nonnative species
3. Overexploitation
4. Pollution

Question 4

When two groups of species adapt to each other within an ecosystem

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Coevolution

Question 5

One organism benefits and the other of unaffected

Answer 5

Commensalism

Question 6

All living things in an area

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Community

Question 7

The reduction or elimination of one species in an environment because of the presence of another species that requires the same resources

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Competitive exclusion

Question 8

The struggle that occurs when two species in an ecosystem both require the same resources

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Competition

Question 9

Name for genetic characteristics that produce a protein that is not very functional

Answer 9

Deleterious alleles

Question 10

Came up with the term biophelia

Answer 10

E.O. Wilson

Question 11

Term used to describe when people are encouraged to travel to natural areas in ways that conserve those environments

Answer 11

Ecotourism

Question 12

A graphical model of energy flow in a community

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Energy pyramid

Question 13

Lots of oxygen and an aquatic ecosystem due to a build up of bacteria that are caused by pollution

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Eutrophication

Question 14

Barnacles and Wales

Answer 14

Example of commensalism

Question 15

Oxpecker and zebra

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Example of mutualism

Question 16

Fleas and dogs

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Example of parasitism

Question 17

The gradual loss of a population until a species no longer exist for 50 years

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Extinction

Question 18

The problem that occurs when the rate of use of species by humans that outpaces the species reproduction rate

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Extinction vortex

Question 19

The term for the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce

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Fitness

Question 20

A single pathway of energy in an ecosystem

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Food chain

Question 21

A series of food chains that are interconnected together

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Food web

Question 22

The process of dividing up a large habitat into smaller subdivisions

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Fragmentation

Question 23

The change in frequency of an allele that occurs within a population

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Genetic drift

Question 24

The sum of all the alleles and their distribution within a species

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Genetic variability

Question 25

Loss of habitat that results in loss of species

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Habitat degradation

Question 26

Small areas on the earths surface but contain high percentages of all the earth living organisms

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Hot spots

Question 27

The negative effect that homozygosity house on fitness one related organisms mate

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Interbreeding depression

Question 28

The name for a single species that can have a dramatic effect of the structure of a community's food web

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Keystone species

Question 29

The symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit from the relationship

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Mutualism

Question 30

The role an organism plays in it ecosystem

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Niche

Question 31

The process by which an empty turn population is driven towards extinction because of a loss of genetic diversity increased ability it to the effects of density independent and interbreeding depression

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Overexploitation

Question 32

Symbiotic relationship when one organism benefits and the other is harmed

Answer 32

Parasitism

Question 33

The relationship and which one organism survive sweat eating another organism

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Predation

Question 34

The name for each step of a food chain in an ecosystem

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Trophic levels