Terms
General
Growth and Population
Biotic VS Abiotic
RANDOM
100
The science that studies the interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is Ecology?
100
Name 2 biomes we covered
TBD
100
What kind of growth is the human population experiencing
What is exponential growth
100
Rainfall affects dispersal of a population by changing a bend in a river between the population.
Abiotic
100
The definition of biodiversity.
What are all the different kinds of life in a given area?
200
This consists of all the organisms in a particular region, along with nonliving components.
What is an ecosystem?
200
How does biodiversity affect sustainability of an ecosystem
Higher Ecosystem diversity leads to higher sustainability
200
Definition of a biotic factor
What is a living factor affecting species abundance and dispersal (disease, predation, prey, etc.)?
200
An ascaris nematode feeds on nutrients in the intestines of a pig. What is the name is this interaction
Biotic (Parasitism)
200
Two examples of abiotic factors.
1) Soil Type
2) Temperature
3) Climate
4)Water
5)Wind
300
A major grouping of plant and animal communities defined by a dominant vegetation type
What is a biome?
300
What are the 2 types of competition
Intraspecific and Interspecific
300
What is carrying capacity
The number of individuals an ecosystem can support
300
A tiger affects the dispersal of gazelle by consuming newborn young. What is the name of this interaction?
Biotic (Predation)
300
The loss of living space due to human activity or catastrophic events.
What is habitat loss?
400
Definition of an abiotic factor.
What is a non-living factor affecting species abundance and dispersal (Temperature, Sunlight, Wind, Soil Type, etc)?
400
What is eutrophication
When a system gets over indexed with nutrients
400
The type of growth curve the populations are showing.
What is an S curve
400
An ox-bird eats the parasites of the skin of a cow. What is the name of this interaction?
Biotic (Mutualism)
400
Which Biome has the highest biodiversity
What is the Tropical Rainforest
500
What is two eyed seeing?
The process of using both Indigenous ways of knowing and Western Science
500
Levels of ecological organization from smallest to largest
What are: organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?
500
The carrying capacity of Paramecium caudatum.
What is ~140?
500
Worms are unable to live in a certain environment because of the soil type.
Abiotic
500
Plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native and that are causing problems for native species.
What is an invasive species?