Chapter XX- Ecology

Question 1

Ecology

Answer 1

-study of interactions among organisms and their environment

Question 2

Population

Answer 2

• interbreed
• same place at same time
• ONE SPECIES

Question 3

Community

Answer 3

-inreracting populations

Question 4

Biome

Answer 4

-large group of ecosystems

Question 5

Biosphere

Answer 5

-supports life

Question 6

Tolerance Curves

Answer 6

• performance graph

- cant survive out of this

Question 7

Acclimation

Answer 7

• adjusts tolerance levels

- slowly adapts

Question 8

Transpiration

Answer 8

Water evaporating from plants

Question 9

Percolation

Answer 9

Collection of warer underground

Question 10

Habitat

Answer 10

-organism lives

Question 11

Niche

Answer 11

-role of a species in an environment

Question 12

Generalist

Answer 12

-eats many different things in many ways

Question 13

Specialist

Answer 13

• eats 1 thing in kne way

- adapted towards 1 resource

Question 14

Fundamental

Answer 14

• potential organisms can get to

Question 15

Realized

Answer 15

• range it actually uses

Question 16

Scavengers

Answer 16

Feed on dead animals

Question 17

Decomposer

Answer 17

Break down and aborb nutrients from dead organisms

Question 18

About ____% is transferred at each level of a food pyramid

Answer 18

10%

Question 19

Trophic levels

Answer 19

Feeding steps

Question 20

Limiting factors

Answer 20

• food
• predators
• temp
• light

Question 21

Symbiosis

Answer 21

Interactions among species

Question 22

Parasitism

Answer 22

Parasite feeds off host

Question 23

Mutualism

Answer 23

++

Question 24

Commensalism

Answer 24

+\0

Question 25

Succession

Answer 25

Natural changes in an environment

- fast= decades

Question 26

Climaz communities

Answer 26

• balanced food web

Question 27

Exponential Growth

Answer 27

• increases rapidly

Think of a J

Question 28

Logistic Model

Answer 28

Carrying capacity is reached

Question 29

Density independent favtors

Answer 29

Natural disasters/ cants control

Question 30

Density dependent factos

Answer 30

Worse when theres more of it

Question 31

Biodiversity

Answer 31

Species richness