Final Flashcards
If a dog is infected with fleas, what is there relationship?
Parasitic
What level are humans in the food chain?
Primary and Secondary
A bird that eats seeds is what in the food chain?
Primary Consumer
What is another name for a primary consumer
Herbivore
What do you call an occupation of a species
Niche
What do you call the address of a species?
Habitat
How much food do you carry from one level to another
10%
What is another name for fat?
Adipos Tissue
Where is the Permafrost?
Tundra
Between soil, bacteria, water, and oxygen, Which is biotic
Bacteria
what is another name for trophic levels
Food Chain
Nitrifying bacteria goes from what to what?
Ammonia to nitrate
Where will we find chaparral in the US
California
An area that cant grow trees because it is so dry. (Not a desert)
Grassland
What is the relationship in the community between humans and sharks?
Interspecific Competition
Population Density
How many people per square foot
What is a Community?
Many species living in one area
Phytoplankton?
A Producer
Detritivores?
An organism that eats dead things
An example of a detritival?
Bacteria, Scavenger
What is a dung beetle?
Scavenger
What is Batesian Mimicry?
A nonpoisonous moth that is trying to reassemble a poisonous wasp
What does epithileal tissue do?
Covers the body with skin
How much nitrogen is found in the enviorment?
78%
What is another name for ecological diterminent
Dominant species
How do plants get carbon from the environment to make food
Photosynthesis
What do Muscles do?
Allow movement
nitrogen fixation converts what to what?
Nitrogen to Ammonia
J –> S Curve meaning?
Population is changing from exponential growth to logistic growth
What causes J to form S?
Limited Resources
What is Denitrification?
Nitrate reduction to nitrogen element
Define Precipitation
Water evaporation that falls
Commensalism
One organism that benefits and other stays neutral
What is an interaction where both species do not benefit
Interspecific competition
What is symbiosis
Relationship between two organisms that involves touching
What are the consequences of symbiosis?
It is not possible
What branch of biology studies how organisms interact with each other and with their environment?
Ecology
What do you call the nonliving components of the environment?
abiotic
What do you call the living components of the environment?
Biotic
What are the 2 main ecological roles of organisms?
producers and consumers
Heterotrophs cannot produce their own ___.
food
What do you call a group of organisms and their environment?
ecosystems
What do you call the third consumer in a food chain?
tertiary consumer
The amount of organic matter present in an organism is called its ___.
Biomass
What type of symbiotic relationship occurs when one
species kills and eats the other?
Predation
______ of an environment - the largest (average) number of individuals (in a species) that an environment can support long-term.
Carrying Capacity
What kind of plants have nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in nodules on their roots?
Legumes
What is the common name given to many small species of animals found in fresh and marine waters throughout the world.
Zooplanktons
