Ecology
Population Growth
Limiting Factors
Biodiversity Crisis
Pollution and Conservation
100
The part of the environment that is not alive.
What are abiotic factors.
100
This happens when food, space, and nesting sites are NOT limited.
What is exponential growth?
100
Competition between members of one species.
What is intraspecific competition (INTRA)?
100
How we know a species is extinct.
What is it has not been seen for 50 years.
100
In Kutztown, I can take my old medicine here for proper disposal.
What is the Boro Hall?
200
An example would be rabbits molting their coat to become camouflage in winter (white) ad spring (brown).
What is an anatomical response?
200
This limits growth, even when it is considered to be exponential growth.
What is biotic potential?
200
This is true when two different species require the same resources and live in the same area.
What is interspecific competition (INTER)?
200
Smokey the bear wants you to prevent forest fire. What is the result of this fire suppression?
What is mature forests dominate and young forests are missing.
200
A place where carbon dioxide levels can be measured in bubbles from 650,000 year ago.
What is deep in the ice in Antarctica.
300
The specific range of conditions that an organism can survive in.
What is a distribution?
300
The exponential growth curve looks like this letter.
What is J?
300
Similar species coexist by dividing up an area.
What is resource partitioning.
300
When a large forest is cut into pieces by development and roads.
What is forest fragmentation?
300
A law to protect organisms that are close to extinction.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
400
The science that focuses on factors affecting things like population size and population growth.
What is population ecology?
400
When the population reaches the maximum possible for the area, it has reached what?
What is carrying capacity?
400
The area that an organism occupies when it is not affected by competition with other species that require the same resources.
What is the fundamental niche?
400
European hares (rabbits) are ____________________ in Australia.
What is an introduced invasive species.
400
The science with a goal of alleviating the extinction crisis.
What is conservation biology?
500
Represented by a graph showing how many individuals there are of each age in a population.
What is population structure?
500
What is true about the number of births and deaths when the population size stabilizes around the carrying capacity?
What is they are equal?
500
Something like the weather, which impacts the growth of a population no matter how large the population is.
What is a density-independent factor.
500
True or false. Plants can take in Nitrogen from the air.
What is False. The nitrogen must go through the process of "nitrogen fixation" which changes it into ammonia or nitrates.
500
The mother of the environmental movement and author of "Silent Spring"
Who is Rachel Carson?
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