Unit 1
What is "the production of offspring"?
Reproduction
What is an abiotic factor?
A nonliving factors in an organism's environment
Which word best describes an area where freshwater and saltwater meet?
Estuary
The maximum number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term
Carrying capacity
________ of a species occurs when the last member of the species dies
Extinction
What are 3 characteristics of a living thing?
Made of one or more cell
Grows and develops
Requires energy
What is the biosphere?
The part of Earth that supports life
Where is the largest percent of water located?
Oceans
A population has an equal number of births and deaths.
Zero Population Growth
________ refers to the variety of ecosystems that are present in the biosphere.
Ecosystem diversity
What is an adaptation?
Changing to your environment
What is a niche?
A role that an organism plays in its environment
What are the 3 zones of the open ocean?
Photic, Benthic, Abyssal
What are the 3 types of dispersion?
Uniformed, Clumped, Random
What are resources called that are replaced by natural processes faster than they are consumed?
Renewable resources
The regulation of an organism's internal environment to maintain conditions needed for life is what?
Homeostasis
What is an autotroph?
Organism who uses sunlight for energy
What are the 3 areas of a lake?
Littoral, Limnetic, Profundal
What is the carrying capacity of Earth?
(DOUBLE POINTS)
There is none
What is the process of using living organisms to detoxify a location?
Bioremediation
What are the two parts of a controlled experiment?
Control group and Experimental group
What is the name of an organism that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
What is the name for large geographic areas with similar climax communities?
Biomes
The size, density, and birth and death rates of a human population are studied
Demography
What are species called that are found only in one geographic location?
Endemic