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Unit Two Test Flashcards

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1
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Ecosystem Diversity

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The number of different habitats available in a given area

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Species Diversity

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The number of different species in an ecosystem and the balance of the population

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Genetic Diversity

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How different the genes are of individuals within population

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Richness

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Total number of different species found in an ecosystem

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Evenness

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Measure of how all the individual organisms in an ecosystem are balanced between different species

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Bottleneck Event

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Disutrbance/Disaster that drastically reduces population, size, and skills of organisms

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What is inbreeding depression?

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When organisms mate with closely related family members

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Ecosystem Resillience

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An ecosystem returns to it’s original conditions after a major disturbance

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Ecological Range of Tolerance

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Range of conditions that an organism can endure before injury or death

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What is optimal range?

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When an organisms survive, grow, and reproduce

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Zone of physiological stress

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Organisms survive but with stressors like infertility, lack of growth, and decreased activity levels

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Zone of intolerance

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Organisms will die

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What are limiting factors?

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Soil, freshwater lakes and rivers, bays and estuaries

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Specialists

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smaller range of tolerance or narrower ecological niche makes them more prone to extinction

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What are examples of specialists?

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specific food requirements and decreased ability to adapt to new conditions

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Generalists

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larger range of tolerance, borader nniche makes them less prone to extinction and more likely to be invasive

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What are examples of generalists?

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broader food requirements and higher adaptability

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Quality

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k-selected species

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Quantity

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r-selected species

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Examples of k-selected species

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fewer offspring, reproduce multiple times, long lifespan, change of invasives

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Examples of r-selected species

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many offspring, may reproduce, shorter life span, more likely to be invasive, rapidly changing

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Survivorship Curve

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line that shows survival rate of cohort in a population from birth to dead

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Type 1 is mostly

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k selected species

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Type 2 is mostly

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in between r and k

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Type 3 is mostly

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r selected

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Biotic Potential

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exponential growth maximum and potential growth rate with no limiting resources

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Logistic Growth

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initial rapid growth

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Size (N)

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total number in a given area at a given time

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Density

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number of individual in a given area

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Distribution

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individual population are spaced out compared to each other

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Sex Ratio

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ratio of males to females

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What factors increase population growth?

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higher TFR, higher birth rate, increased access to clean water, healthcare

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What factors decrease population growth?

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higher death rate, increased education in women, delayed age of first child

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Biome

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large area with similar climate conditions that determine plant and animal species there

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Ecosystem

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all living and non living things in an area

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Symbosis

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any close and long term interaction between two organisms of different species

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Mutualism

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organisms of different species living close together in a way that benefits both

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Commensalism

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relationship that benefits one organisms and doesn’t impact the other

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Trophic Cascade

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removal or addition of a top predator has a ripple effect down through lower trophic levels

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Tertiary Consumers

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animals that eat secondary consumers or carnivores and omnivores

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Secondary Consumers

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animals that eat primary consumers or herbivores

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Primary Consumers

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animals that eat plants

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Producers

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really convent sun’s light energy into chemical energy

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Ecosystem Services

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goods that come from natural resources

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Provisioning

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goods taken directly from ecosystems like fish, hunting, berries

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Regulating

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natural ecosystems regulate climate/air quality like trees

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Supporting

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natural ecosystems support process we do ourselves making them cheaper and easier like wetland plant roots or insects pollinating

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Cultural

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money generated by recreation like paying to enter state parks or paying for a fishing license

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Salinity

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the amount of salt in a body of water

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Flow

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determines which plants and organisms can survive and how much O2 can dissolve into the water

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Depth

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influences how much sunlight can penetrate and reach plants below surface for photosynthesis

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Temperature

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warmer water holds less dissolved O2

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Natural Disturbance

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a natural event that disrupts the structure/function of an ecosystem

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Periodic

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occurs with regular frequency like dry-wet seasons

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Episodic

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occasional events with irregular frequencies like hurricanes, droughts, and fires

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Random

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no regular frequencies like earthquakes, volcanoes, and asteroids

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Natural Climate Change

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earth’s climate has varied over geological time for numerous reasons

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Migration

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wildlife may migrate to a new habitat as the result of natural disruptions

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Natural Selection

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organisms that are better adapted to their environment

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Evolution

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the environment an organisms lives in determines which traits are adaptions

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Pace of Evolution

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the more rapidly an environment changes, the less likely a species in the environment will adapt to those changes

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Primary Succession

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starts from bare rock in an area with no previous soil formation

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Secondary Succession

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starts from already established soil

64
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Invasive Species

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species not native to an area

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