Ecology Vocab
The action or process of adapting or being adapted.
What is Adaptation
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Recognize the problem.
Who believed organisms have changed over time?
Lamarck and Darwin.
An organism that produces its own food.
What is a producer?
An organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area.
What is invasive species.
An animal that cannot produce its own food and must eat plants or other animals for energy.
What is a Consumer?
What is the third step of the scientific method?
Form a hypothesis.
Who believed there was variations within populations?
Darwin.
True or False, plants are the only producer.
True.
The ratio between the number of live-born births in the year and the average total population of that year.
What is birth-rate?
Getting rid of wastes.
What is Excretion?
What is the second step of the scientific method
Form a hypothesis.
Who believed parents are able to pass on at least some of their traits to their offspring?
Lamarck and Darwin.
An animal must eat plants or other animals for energy.
What is a consumer?
Ratio between deaths and individuals in a specified population during a particular time period.
What is death-rate?
An association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
What is commensalism?
True or false, drawing conclusions is the final step of the scientific method.
False.
True or False, both Lamarck and Darwin believed that parents are only able to pass on traits they are born with.
False, only Darwin believed parents are only able to pass on traits they are born with.
True or False, a consumer can produce is own food.
False.
That body of traditional environmental and cultural knowledge unique to a group of people which has served to sustain that people through generations of living within a distinct bioregion.
What is indigenous?
A non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
What is abiotic factor?
True or false, analyze your data is the fourth step of the scientific method.
True.
Who believed certain traits help organisms survive and reproduce better than other organisms without those traits?
Darwin.
Is grass a first level consumer?
No, grass is a producer, not a consumer.
Anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
What is limiting factor?