Final Exam (Lecture Exam 4) Flashcards

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What is dermal tissue?

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outside tissue

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What is vascular tissue?

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tissue that transports sugar and water

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What is ground tissue?

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filter tissue (function depends on placement)

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Explain mycorrhizal relationships with plant nutrition

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thread-like strands surround the root and increase absorptive surface area

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Explain root nodules and their importance in plant nutrition

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small swellings filled with bacteria that fix nitrogen for the plant

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What is the role of the endodermis?

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to regulate what enters vascular tissue

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What role does the Casparian strip have?

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the waxy band creates a barrier

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What’s the function of the plant cuticle?

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keep and store water

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What are the structure and functions of roots?

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Functions: anchorage and support, mineral nutrient and water absorption, reproduction, food storage
Structure: cells are added to root length and cap, root cap and root cortex

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What are the structure and functions of stems?

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Functions: primary (in meristem tissue) and secondary growth
Structure: long tube used for growth

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What are the structure and functions of leaves?

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Structure: dermal tissue, stomata
Functions: gas exchange in stomata

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What is meristem tissue?

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site of primary and secondary growth in stems

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What is primary growth?

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elongation of the stem and roots that all plants undergo in the meristem tissue

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What is secondary growth?

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growth in plant width, mitosis pushes cells out; wood is secondary xylem

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How does water move through roots to leaves?

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water evaporates from the cells in the leaf and out the stomata, water molecules stick to one another and to the walls of xylem cells, this creates a water tension and molecules move up through xylem

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What are xylem cells?

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cells that transport water and minerals (xylem sap), dead

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What are phloem cells?

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cells that transport sugar (phloem sap), alive

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What are stomata cells?

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cells on the bottom of leaves that allow gases to enter for gas exchange

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What is the pressure-flow mechanism in plants?

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sugar is loaded from the source cell to the phloem by active transport, sugar concentration increases, water moves by osmosis, then at a sink call the sugar is unloaded out of the phloem, water then moves back into the phloem

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Extracellular Digestion

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nutrients are broken down outside the cell in specialized compartments

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Intracellular Digestion

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enzymes break down food inside the cells

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Incomplete Digestion System

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cavity or sac with a single opening serves as a mouth and anus, includes a gastrovascular cavity (coral, hydra, flay worms)

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Complete Digestive System

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a tube extending between two openings, a mouth and an anus (a more diverse and specialized diet)

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What animals have highly modified digestive systems?

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herbivores, carnivores, ruminants and birds

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What is the function of the human stomach?

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mix and store food, store 2 liters of food and water, and controls the passage of the small intestine

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How is food absorbed in the small intestine?

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the duodenum (smallest section) receives enzymes from the liver and pancreas, the jejunum utilizes secretions from the duodenum for digestion

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What are villi and microvilli?

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Villi: finger-like projections on the wall of the intestine
Microvilli: tiny projections on epithelial cells of villi

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What are the animal teeth types?

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Carnivores:
Reduced incisors
Enlarged canines for sheering flesh
Molars are reduced
Rodents:
Large incisors to knaw food
No canines
Molars to grind food
Grazing animals:
Incisors are for specialized for clipping off plant material
Canines are absent
Molars are massive with grinding surface
Omnivores:
teeth are relatively unspecialized

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What is the type of gas exchange in animals?

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entire body surface (no circulatory system or diffusion into the circulatory system), tracheal system (air tubes that extend throughout the body), gills (specialized for water), lungs (pair of internal, thin-walled, moistened sacs)

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What makes bird gas exchange efficient?

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gas exchange occurs in their lungs, lungs are connected to a series of air sacs

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What makes gills efficient?

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the gills hold the weight of the water

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What is the inhalation process?

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the diaphragm relaxes, increasing space in chest cavity, pulls air into lungs

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What is the tracheal system for insects?

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the movement of insects allows for oxygen to enter faster, their circulatory system is only used for nutrient transport

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What is the nasal cavity?

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lined with hair and mucus that filter dust; warms and moistens air

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what is the pharynx (throat)?

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epiglottis filters food and air

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what is the larynx?

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voicebox, shape can change based on air pressure

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what is the trachea?

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windpipe, ribbed to prevent collapsing

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what is the bronchi?

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one of the two tubes that join the trachea to lungs

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what are the bronchioles?

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highly branched for gas exchange, “little trees”

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what are the alveoli?

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cup-shaped sacs at the end of the bronchioles that are covered with capillaries

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What is an open circulatory system?

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no capillaries, hemolymph (circulating fluid that directly contacts tissues), some cells have no oxygen

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What is a closed circulatory system?

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have capillaries, blood is contained within vessels, blood is separate from interstitial fluid, more efficient flow

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What is the benefit of the 4 chambered heart?

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two separate chambers, 2 receiving and ventricles.
Two chambered: fish, sharks, and rays
Three chambered: amphibians and reptiles
Four chambered: mammals, birds and crocidiles

44
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What are the 4 components of blood and what does each do?

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Plasma
Red blood cells: erythrocytes, transport oxygen and carbon
White blood cells: leukocytes, fight infections
Platelets: stops leaks in circulatory system

45
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Explain the right atrium

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the right atrium receives oxygen-poor blood from the body

46
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Explain the right ventricle

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the right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs by the pulmonary artery (transport away from the heart)

47
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explain the left atrium

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the left atrium fills with oxygen-rich blood

48
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explain the left ventricle

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the left ventricle pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body through aorta (the largest job)

49
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what do arteries do?

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carry blood away from the heart to other parts of the body

50
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What are arterioles?

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small arteries

51
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what do capillaries do?

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the site of diffusion that occurs across the thin walls

52
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what are veins?

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large-diameter vessels

53
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what are venules?

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smallest veins that receive blood from capillaries

54
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what is a biosphere?

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all of earth that is inhabited by life

55
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what influences climate?

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incoming solar radiation, global air circulation

56
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What are the difference in intensity at the poles and the equator?

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the poles have a low angle of sunlight, at the equator, the sunlight is directly overhead

57
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Compare the temperatures at each latitude

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0 degrees: wet
30 degrees north and south: dry
60 degrees north and south: wet
poles: dry

58
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Tropical rainforest

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found by the equator, 78-100 inches of rain yearly, tall trees or plants that grow on other plants, animals camouflage climb or fly

59
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Desert

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near 30 degrees north and south, less than 12 inches of rain yearly, plants are widely spaced out (cactus), animals burrow and have large ears to regulate body heat

60
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Arctic Tundra

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upper latitudes, less than 6 inches of rain yearly, herd migration, mostly perennial plants

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Alpine tundra

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15 inches of rain yearly, very windy and grassy, no trees due to high solar radiation

62
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What is permafrost?

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permanently frozen soil with no decomposition that stores carbon dioxide

63
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lake ecosystems

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eutrophic and oligotrophic lakes, freshwater biomes

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river/stream ecosystems

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have a current in one direction, water picks up nutrients and oxygen, cold and clear

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coral reef

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cousin to kelp forest, warm shallow nutrient-poor waters, high productivity and biodiversity

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intertidal biome

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current-crashing waves, high nutrients and productivity, animals have hard shells and suckers on their foot

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kelp forest biome

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cold nutrient-rich waters, high productivity, and biodiversity

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abyssal biome

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new species 2 miles beneath the ocean surface, bioluminescence due to lack of light

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hydrothermal vent biome

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cracked open the earth’s crust, volcanic rock has heat, chemoautotrophic bacteria

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open ocean biomes

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phytoplankton, diatoms, and dinoflagellates support open oceans

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what is lake turnover?

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mixes water from seasons and lifts nutrients, adds oxygen to deep water. cold water has a lower density than hot water which allows for turnover

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eutrophic lakes

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clear lakes, shallow and warm, nutrient-rich, high productivity and high levels of sunlight, high algae bloom

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oligotrophic lakes

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deep and cold, nutrient-poor, low productivity, more oxygen

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Tinbergen’s 4 questions

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Proximate Behavior: (how)
1. Mechanism - what elicits the behavior?
2. Ontogency - how does a behavior develop during an animal’s life?
Ultimate Questions: (why)
3. adaptive value - How does the behavior aid in survival and reproduction?
4. phenology - how did it evolve over the history of the species?

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proximate v. ultimate causes

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proximate: immediate reason for behavior
ultimate: evolutionary causes

76
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what is a fixed action pattern?

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the sequence of unlearned acts directly linked to a simple stimulus (male stickleback fish attack each other, red underbelly is a sign stimulus)

77
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habituation learning

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animals learns not to respond to repeated stimulus that conveys little/no information

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spatial learning

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establishment of a memory associated with spatial awareness of environment

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associative learning

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animals associate one feature of environment with another (treats with dogs)

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social learning

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learning through observations of others (mammals, primates)

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kin selection

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natural selection that favors behaviors that enhance reproductive success of relatives

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altruism

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adaptive if aided individual returns favor in future

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what is a community

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an assemblage of all the living organisms interacting in an area

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what is a niche

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role a species plays in the community (top predator, producer, etc)

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what is a species’ habitat?

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where a certain species is found

86
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what is symbiosis?

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‘living’ together, negative or positive interactions of species

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what is a commensalism relationship?

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one species benefits significantly, while the other is neither helped nor harmed (turkey vultures sit on trees, and trees aren’t harmed)

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what is mutualism?

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both species benefit (pollination)

89
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what is predation?

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the animal eats another animal (lioness)

90
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what is herbivory?

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animals eat a plant (koalas, the driving force of evolution)

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what is a parasite/host relationship?

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parasite lives/gets nutrients from a living host; the host is dying or injured (mistletoe)

92
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what is interspecific competition?

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competition between two different species (for food and shelter)

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what is intraspecific competition?

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competition between the same species (for mates, resources)

94
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what is the competitive exclusion principle?

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if there are two species that use the same resources, one will always be outcompeted (study with paramecium caudatum and aurelia, aurelia survived and paramecium was eliminated)

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what is resource paritioning?

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niche differentiation allowing two different species to exist (shone birds with different beak lengths)

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what is primary succession?

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changes in a community that begins in an area where soil is not yet formed (glaciers or volcanic rock)

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what is secondary succession?

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changes in a community that occurs where an existing community has been cleared (fire disturbance)

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what is the keystone species concept?

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an ecologically dominant species dictates community structure and diversity (sea star community: Robert Paine 1966, sea otters and kelp forest)

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what is an invasive species?

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organisms that have been introduced into non-native habitats by human actions and have established themselves at the expense of native communities

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what are producers?

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make energy from the sun available for use by other organisms

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what are consumers?

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herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, parasites, decomposers (have to eat producers or eat other organisms to get energy)

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what are gross and net primary productivity?

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gross: the total amount of energy captured through photosynthesis (only 1% is captured and used)
net: stored energy in tissues after loss to aerobic respiration

103
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what is the second law of thermodynamics?

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whenever energy is converted from one form to another, some is lost in the form of heat and thus can’t perform work, (rule of ten: 10% of energy is passed from one level to the next)

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energy flow versus nutrient cycling

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energy flow: sets the energy budget for ecosystems, from the sun in one direction
nutrient cycling: carbon dioxide, oxygen and nutrients are cycled

105
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the nitrogen cycle

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essential for plant growth and required by all animals; nitrogen gas turned into nitrate, nitrogen-fixing bacteria (cyanobacteria), decomposition

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the carbon cycle

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lots of carbon sources, not a lot of uses except photosynthesis, greenhouse effect traps incoming energy in the form of heat. stored in ocean, soil and plants