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1
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If a dog is infected with fleas, what is there relationship?

A

Parasitic

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2
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What level are humans in the food chain?

A

Primary and Secondary

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3
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A bird that eats seeds is what in the food chain?

A

Primary Consumer

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4
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What is another name for a primary consumer

A

Herbivore

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5
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What do you call an occupation of a species

A

Niche

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6
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What do you call the address of a species?

A

Habitat

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7
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How much food do you carry from one level to another

A

10%

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8
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What is another name for fat?

A

Adipos Tissue

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9
Q

Where is the Permafrost?

A

Tundra

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10
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Between soil, bacteria, water, and oxygen, Which is biotic

A

Bacteria

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11
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what is another name for trophic levels

A

Food Chain

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12
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Nitrifying bacteria goes from what to what?

A

Ammonia to nitrate

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13
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Where will we find chaparral in the US

A

California

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14
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An area that cant grow trees because it is so dry. (Not a desert)

A

Grassland

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15
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What is the relationship in the community between humans and sharks?

A

Interspecific Competition

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16
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Population Density

A

How many people per square foot

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17
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What is a Community?

A

Many species living in one area

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18
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Phytoplankton?

A

A Producer

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19
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Detritivores?

A

An organism that eats dead things

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20
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An example of a detritival?

A

Bacteria, Scavenger

21
Q

What is a dung beetle?

A

Scavenger

22
Q

What is Batesian Mimicry?

A

A nonpoisonous moth that is trying to reassemble a poisonous wasp

23
Q

What does epithileal tissue do?

A

Covers the body with skin

24
Q

How much nitrogen is found in the enviorment?

A

78%

25
Q

What is another name for ecological diterminent

A

Dominant species

26
Q

How do plants get carbon from the environment to make food

A

Photosynthesis

27
Q

What do Muscles do?

A

Allow movement

28
Q

nitrogen fixation converts what to what?

A

Nitrogen to Ammonia

29
Q

J –> S Curve meaning?

A

Population is changing from exponential growth to logistic growth

30
Q

What causes J to form S?

A

Limited Resources

31
Q

What is Denitrification?

A

Nitrate reduction to nitrogen element

32
Q

Define Precipitation

A

Water evaporation that falls

33
Q

Commensalism

A

One organism that benefits and other stays neutral

34
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What is an interaction where both species do not benefit

A

Interspecific competition

35
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What is symbiosis

A

Relationship between two organisms that involves touching

36
Q

What are the consequences of symbiosis?

A

It is not possible

37
Q

What branch of biology studies how organisms interact with each other and with their environment?

A

Ecology

38
Q

What do you call the nonliving components of the environment?

A

abiotic

39
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What do you call the living components of the environment?

A

Biotic

40
Q

What are the 2 main ecological roles of organisms?

A

producers and consumers

41
Q

Heterotrophs cannot produce their own ___.

A

food

42
Q

What do you call a group of organisms and their environment?

A

ecosystems

43
Q

What do you call the third consumer in a food chain?

A

tertiary consumer

44
Q

The amount of organic matter present in an organism is called its ___.

A

Biomass

45
Q

What type of symbiotic relationship occurs when one

species kills and eats the other?

A

Predation

46
Q

______ of an environment - the largest (average) number of individuals (in a species) that an environment can support long-term.

A

Carrying Capacity

47
Q

What kind of plants have nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in nodules on their roots?

A

Legumes

48
Q

What is the common name given to many small species of animals found in fresh and marine waters throughout the world.

A

Zooplanktons