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This term means "nonliving"
What is abiotic?
This is the broadest taxon.
What is domain?
*Bonus: what are the three domains?
This interaction is +/+, as both partners benefit.
What is mutualism?
The I in B.I.D.E stands for this.
What is immigration?
*bonus: does it cause the population to increase or decrease?
_____ _____ is a change in morphology that allows two competing organisms to avoid competition.
What is character displacement?
Two organisms living in a close, longterm association are said to be in a _____.
What is symbiosis?
This kingdom is full of absorptive herterotrophs, who secrete enzymes to break down their food through extracellular digestion.
What is Fungi?
This principle states that two species with overlapping niches cannot coexist in the same habitat.
What is the Competitive Exclusion Principle?
Fires and floods are examples of density-_____ mortality.
What is independent?
_____ defenses physically prevent an organism from being eaten.
What is mechanical?
The longterm weather patterns in an area are called this.
What is climate?
This domain is full of prokaryotes with peptidoglycan cell walls and is traditionally associated with dirt, disease and death.
What is Domain Bacteria?
This model describes the cycling of predator and prey populations.
What is Lotka-Volterra?
This term refers to the number of an organism's offspring that survive to reproductive age.
What is recruitment?
_____ _____ allows species to avoid competition by dividing shared resources.
What is resource partitioning?
A group of individuals of the same species living in the same area is a _____.
What is a population?
These plants are the first land colonizers, and are missing many standard plant structures like roots, stems, leaves, seeds and vascular tissue.
This interaction is neutral for one partner, but the other is harmed.
What is amensalism?
Having many, self-reliant young that require no parental care after a short gestation period are all _____-selected traits
As plants evolve defenses against getting eaten, _____ overcome them.
What are herbivores?
This is the gradual change in species composition ecosystem over time.
What is succession?
This is the most abundant and diverse group of plants, thanks in part to its animal partnerships.
What is angiosperms?
Competition from the use of shared resources is called _____ competition.
What is indirect/exploitation competition?
Populations in the wild are limited by K, or _____ _____.
What is carrying capacity?
Two toxic species with near-identical warning colorating is an example of _____.
What is (Mullerian) mimicry?
What is physical defense?