Removal Recall Flashcards
This is the force used to describe the circulation of wind patterns in a rotating earth.
Coriolis Effect
These are the large circular patterns of surface ocean currents.
Gyres
This is the duration of time it takes for an object (such as water) to enter and leave a system.
Residence Time
The reduction of light intensity as it moves through a medium, such as with increasing water depth.
Attenuation
These are rocks in which they prevent the flow and adsorption of water.
Impermeable Rocks
These are formed when part of a meandering river becomes disconnected.
Oxbow Lakes
The ability to hold positively charged ions in the soil.
Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)
This is an organic component of soil with low C turnover rates formed by the degradation of organic matter.
Humus
This is the mass per unit volume of soil particles once water and air space are removed.
Bulk Density
This is a cyclical system in the atmosphere formed by differences in density and temperature of the air at different locations.
Convection Cell
This is the range of temperatures in which an animal can maintain its body temperature without increasing heat production.
Thermal Neutral Zone (TNZ)
This principle states that organisms prioritize different activities in accordance with the changing abundance of resources.
Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT)
The element that contributes to the negatively charged component of clay particles.
Aluminum (Al)
This is the prolonged torpor of endothermic vertebrates during summer.
Estivation
The ability of a system to draw water from one area to another.
Capillary Action
This enzyme is responsible for the fixation of carbon dioxide into 3-phosphoglycerate.
RuBisCo: Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
The phenomenon in which multiple toxic organisms, not necessarily from the same lineage, converge to a common appearance or behavior.
Mullerian Mimicry
These are organisms in which they use other substances other than light to fuel carbon fixation reactions.
Chemolithoautotrophs
A mating combination in which multiple females are shared by only one male.
Polygyny
This occurs when sexual selection results in the exaggeration of certain features.
Runaway Selectioin
This is the combination of an individual’s reproductive output and the reproductive benefits incurred from cooperation and altruistic behavior from helping relatives.
Inclusive Fitness
A classification system that differentiates plants according to their varying levels of competitiveness and tolerance to stress and disturbance.
Grime’s C-S-R Triangle Theory (GTT)
These are multiple populations that are linked by dispersal behavior between them.
Metapopulations
The mathematical condition in which an organism results in aiding a fellow individual of the same species.
Hamilton’s Rule
The quantitative model in which population size can be calculated.
Logistic Growth Model (LGM)
This constraint prevents species from becoming part of the community because of their inability to arrive at a site.
Dispersal Limitation
The umbrella term that describes different kinds of interactions where at least one species benefits.
Symbiosis
The phenomenon in which at increasing densities, the biomass per plant decreases.
Self-Thinning
These are prey strategies (either spatial or temporal) that prevent prey from being eaten.
Refuge Strategies
These are transition zones between two communities or ecosystem types.
Ecotones
This hypothesis states that diversity is highest at neither extremely low nor extremely high levels of disturbance.
Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH)
The extent to which an organism’s niche is occupied resulting from limiting pressures of a different species.
Realized Niche
This is a behavioral pattern/strategy in which one species relies or takes advantage of another species to care for their young.
Brood Parasitism
This mode of transmission does not rely on the population of individuals per area for transmission events.
Density-Independent Transmission (DIT)
A mutualistic symbiosis between fungi and photobiont (either algae, cyanobacteria, or both).
Lichen
In terms of specificity, what kind of mutualist do ectomycorrhizae exhibit on plant roots?
Generalist Mutualist
The photsynthetic, symbiotic partners of corals.
Zooxanthellae
The mutualistic symbiotic partners of deep sea, light emitting organisms such as squid.
Bioluminescent Bacteria
The total biomass produced by all heterotrophic organisms in an area.
Secondary Production
This step in the nitrogen cycle converts ammonia into nitrates.
Nitrification
This is the theoretical maximum in which oil production reaches, after which, production will begin an irreversible decline.
Peak Oil
These are organisms which shape their landscape and affect ecosystem dynamics.
Ecosystem Engineers
This hypothesis states that diversity is highest at the equator and gradually reduces as it moves to the polar regions of the Earth.
Latitudinal Diversity Gradient Hypothesis (LDGH)
The movement of nutrients along the river.
Nutrient Flux
These are areas in which nutrients (such as Carbon) is stored indefinitely.
Nutrient Sinks
An example of a transitional environment (there are many answers, only choose one).
Estuaries, Mangroves, Wetlands, Brackish Water, etc…
(WEMB)
These are forests found in cold, subarctic regions.
Taiga/Boreal Forests
An example of a wetland ecosystem.
Marshes, Swamps, Bogs, Fens, etc… (SMBF)
The name of the nitrogen fixing eukaryote and its endosymbiont.
Legume, Rhizomium, Nitrogen Fixation, Root Nodules (L,R,NF,RN)
