The Science of Biology
The science of life.
What is biology?
A group of the same species living in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
Organisms that acquire their energy from non-living sources.
What are autotrophs?
The type of relationship when one organism hunts and eats another organism.
What is predation?
An ecosystem that develops where there was previously no ecosystem follows this process.
What is primary succession?
A proposed explanation that is used as the starting point for an investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
The theoretical limit that an ecosystem can sustain for a certain population.
What is carrying capacity?
A series of steps in which a large fish eats a small fish that has eaten algae.
What is a food chain?
What is mutualism?
The stable ecosystem that develops near the end of succession.
What is a climax community?
What is the dependent variable?
Population growth that increases rapidly and then levels off.
What is logistic growth?
Complete the list: Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, ______________.
What are tertiary consumers?
Symbiotic relationship where one organisms benefits from the relationship while the other organism is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
An uncut lawn becomes a meadow and eventually a forest is an example of this process.
What is secondary succession?
What is a theory?
Predation is an example of this type of limiting factor.
What is a density-dependent limiting factor?
The name of the different levels of nourishment in a food chain.
What is a trophic level?
All of the things an organism needs and does within its habitat.
What is a niche?
Mr. Richards went to college here.
What is The Ohio State University?
An internal balance that all living organisms maintain even though the external environment is always changing.
What is homeostasis?
The two ways that a population can decrease in density.
What is an emigration and a high death rate?
The amount of energy that is available to the 3rd level of a trophic pyramid.
What is 1%?
The principle that states that no two organisms can occupy the same niche at the same time?
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
The names of Mr. Richards' cats.
What are Walter and Skyler?