5.1
This word refers to change over time
What is Evolution?
The role on organism pays in its environment is known as this
What is a Niche?
This is the ability to do work
What is energy?
The process of one community replacing another after changing biotic and abiotic factors is known as this
What is succession?
Random changes in our DNA are known as this
What are mutations?
This is the name of the scientists that is accredited with the formation of the theory of evolution by means of natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is the ability of an organisms to survive and reproduce under changing environmental conditions
What is Tolerance?
The process by which producers convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into glucose (food) and oxygen is known as this process.
What is Photosynthesis?
Any change in an environment (big or small) is categorized as this vocab word
What is a disturbance?
Biological evolution that occurs through chance is known as this
What is Genetic Drift?
This is a heritable trait that increases an organisms chances of survival and reproduction
What is an adaption?
An ecological relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed
What is Predation?
Humans, Racoons, and Bears eat a mixture of meat and plants making them this kind of animal
What are omnivores?
After a disturbance in a forest, there are no signs of life left. That means that this type of succession is going to take place
What is Primary Succession?
The type of relationship where one organism depends on another (a host) for nutrients and others benefits is known as this
What is parasitism?
This word refers to how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment.
What is fitness?
Barnacles living on the skin of a whale is an example of this kind of ecological relationship
What is Commensalism?
Each trophic level of a food chain contains this amount of energy from the previous trophic level
What is 10%?
This is the name of the first species that colonizes an area after a disturbance
What is a Pioneer Species?
A species that has a wide ranging impact on the community such that if it was removed, the ecosystem would collapse is known as this
What is a keystone species?
We can tell that biological evolution has occured over generations because we see that there is a change in the organism's this
What is Gene Pool?
Pandas have very strict diet and habitat requirements. This means that we classify pandas as this type of species
What is specialist?
The total amount of living tissue an organisms contains is known as this
What is biomass?
An organism (or species) that causes ecological or economic harm in an environment in which it is not native is known as this
What is an Invasive Species?
Secondary succession is when some life remains after a disturbance. Usually, this is the substance that contains the remaining life forms
What is soil?