Intro To Ecology Flashcards
What is a habbitat?
Place where an organism lives
Distribution of a species is determined by the corresponding of ______ and it’s environment.
Adaptations
What is a Niche?
A description of what the organism requires to live.
What is a Community?
The assemblage of all organisms in a certain area.
What is the “Law of Tolerence”?
An organism will be found in its suitable habitat.
What happens if an organism is outside of its natural habitat? (Law of Tolerence)
Organisms will experience stress that will reduce its fitness up to its Tolerance level.
What happens if an organism outside of its suitable habitat can’t find the proper abiotic factors?
It will reach the Tolerance level.
What are abiotic factors?
Sunlight
Oxygen
Water
Temperature
True or False: Communities generally contain species that meet the same niche requirement?
True
What are major communities that stretch across large geographical regions called?
Biomes
