Species
Carrying Capacity
Bio-Diversity
Conservation Biology
Dimensions of Biodiversity
100
These species, whose presence or absence, govern
the existence and overall composition of the system.
Keystone Species
100
What is the largest number of individuals of one that an ecosystem can support called?
Carrying Capacity.
100
The greater the number of species means _______ biodiversity.
More
100
The science of analyzing and preserving existing biological diversity.
Conservation Biology
100
Within the dimensions of biodiversity, how many components are there?
Four (4)
200
A keystone species holds a community............ .
Together
200
In all populations, the factors that limit or restrict the number of individuals in a population Are called what?
Limiting Factors
200
Biodiversity increases as you move toward what?
A. The Poles
B. The Equator
Equator
200
Conservation biology conserves what?
What is "left"
200
Daily, Seasonal, annual and ecological/ evolutionary components best describe which dimension of biodiversity?
Temporal
300
Elimination of a keystone species dramatically alters the structure and function of what?
Ecosystem
300
Give an example of a limiting factor.
Food, water, shelter, mates, nesting materials, & C.
300
Biodiversity provides what to an ecosystem?
A. Instability
B. Stability
Stability
300
This word means the variety of life on Earth at all its levels
Biodiversity
300
Individual, population, between populations or species components best describe which dimension of biodiversity?
Genetic
400
When a Keystone species is removed from an ecosystem, a prey species undergo what?
Ecological Release
400
In a real ecosystem, a population with fluctuate (move) ___________ and _____________ the carrying capacity.
Above and Below
400
These have producers, primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers.
Food Chain
400
While Conservation Biology wants to “conserve what is left”, Restoration Ecology wants to do what?
Restore what once was
400
Reproductive behavior, predation and parasitism components best describe which dimension of biodiversity?
Functional
500
Jackalope
500
If a population goes above its carrying capacity, some individuals will _______.
Die
500
In an ecosystem, living things have ______________ relationships.
Symbiotic
500
Which would a Conservation Biologists be concerned with?
A. Conserving or preserving existing biological diversity.
B. Restoring an biological diversity to a level seen previously.
A. Conserving or preserving existing biological diversity.
500
Communities, ecosystems, landscapes, and biographic region components best describe which dimension of biodiversity?
Spatial
1000
Living species can be ______________ for other living things.
Niches
1000
D
1000
Biodiversity ___________ as you move toward the poles.
Decreases
1000
Conservation Biologists want save biodiversity ________ it becomes damaged, degraded or destroyed.
Before
1000
Within Conservation Biology, Genetic, Spatial, Functional and Temporal Components are part of what?
Dimensions of Biodiversity