These individuals maintain a constant internal body temperature via their metabolism
What are homeotherms?
100
Darkling beetles in the Namib desert use this trick to increase their water uptake.
What is collecting condensed water from fog?
100
If an organism used energy for one function, it is not available for another competing function.
What is the principle of allocation?
100
Males of these forest insects use a dead arthropod to bolster their ability to attract a female.
What are scorpionflies?
100
The ecological concept defined by Hutchinson as an "n-dimensional hypervolume".
What is a niche?
200
The transfer of heat between objects in direct physical contact.
What is conduction?
200
Freshwater fish are generally __ to their aquatic environment, which means their tissues have more solutes compared to the water..
What is hyperosmotic?
200
These organisms use carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and light as a source of energy to synthesize organic compounds.
What are photosynthetic autotrophs?
200
The 3 conditions that must be met for a species to be considered eusocial.
What are 1) multiple generations living together, 2) cooperative care of young, and 3) non-reproductive and reproductive castes
200
The pattern of distribution that is typically seen in organisms that have antagonistic interactions among them.
What is regular (or uniform)?
300
The range of environmental temperatures over which the metabolic rate of a homeothermic animal does not change.
What is the thermal neutral zone?
300
Plants lose water via this, represented by Wt, in which water evaporates from the stomata.
What is transpiration?
300
An alternate photosynthetic pathway in which carbon fixation and light capture are separated into different cells.
What is C4 photosynthesis?
300
He was the first to point out that in insects such as ants, the diploid female workers are more related to each other than they would be to their offspring.
Who is W.D. Hamilton?
300
The ecological term that means "a group of individuals of the same species living together in a given time/place".
What is a population?
400
Bernd Heinrich discovered that this kind of moth is able to regulate its temperature endothermically by regulating blood flow to the abdomen.
What is the sphinx moth?
400
The water that is produced and released during cellular respiration is called this. Some animals such as the Merriam's kangaroo rat depend on it for survival.
What is metabolic water.
400
Name one challenge to nutrient acquisition faced by an herbivore.
What are 1) overcoming chemical/physical defenses, or 2) getting enough nitrogen
400
The eusocial naked mole rat is endemic to this continent.
What is Africa?
400
The ___ niche is the actual niche of a species in consideration of competition, predation, disease and parasitism.
What is realized?
500
A state of low metabolic rate occurring specifically in the summer to allow animals to survive hot and dry conditions.
What is estivation?
500
This Sonoran desert insect survives extremely dry and hot conditions by constantly sucking plant juices and evaporatively cooling.
What is the Sonoran Desert Cicada?
500
This type of functional response is S-shaped.
What is Type III?
500
This term means the tendency of organisms to remain in the same area throughout their lives, such as green woodhoopoes.
What is philopatry?
500
She devised a system of classifying organism rarity based on geographic range, habitat tolerance, and local population size.