Biomemania
Home to tree sloths and parrots and spider monkeys
What is tropical rain forest?
Volcanoes, floods, extreme cold weather
What are density independent limiting factors
Species that live in large groups, most of which are non reproductive
What are Eusocial animals?
A sharks skeleton is made of this
What is cartilage?
Biome where giant redwoods and sequoias are found
What is a temperate rain forest?
Home to zebras, gazelles, and wildebeests
What is tropical grasslands?
The measurement of the number of if individuals living in a defined space.
What is population density?
Chemicals that are released by an animal to affect the behavior of others.
What are phermones?
Both the number of siphons and valves a clam has
What is two?
American Bison are considered a keystone species of this biome.
What is a temperate grassland?
Home to musk ox, caribou, and ptarmigan
What is tundra?
Type of survivorship curve shown by humans and elephants
What is type I?
When an animal reduces its own fitness to help other members of its social group
What is altruism?
Number of chambers in a shark's heart
What is two?
All the physical, chemical, and biological factors a species needs to survive and thrive.
What is an ecological niche?
The zone between high and low tide
What is the intertidal zone?
Type of survivorship curve shown by frogs and salmon
What is type III?
He pioneered work in operant conditioning
Who was B.F. Skinner?
Plant we searched for in our outside lab
What is a danelion?
This biogeochemical cycle depends on bacteria at a several stages
What is the nitrogen cycle?
This biome receives less than 10 inches of precipitatoin annually
What is a desert?
The impact of the introduction of gray squirrels on European red squirrels in Britain is an example of this
What is competitive exclusion?
Behavior that is characterized as innate and relatively inflexible
What is innate?
The type of stimuli we exposed crayfish to
What is external?
Organisms that eat seeds and insects
What are omnivores?