What is the definition of behavior?
Any action that can be observed or described
What are the zones of the Earth's soil, water, and air?
The Biosphere
What are a biotic and abiotic used in the environment?
Ecological Niche
Where do rain shadows occur?
On the leeward side of a mountain range.
What are the two types of values of biodiversity?
Direct and Indirect
What is orientation?
The ability to travel in a particular direction.
What is it when a species use the same resources and can be intraspecific?
Competition
In mutualism, who benefits?
Both participating species
What are some different types of wetlands?
Marshes, Swamps, and Bogs
What are the two metapopulations?
Source population, and Sink population
What are the five characteristics of a Fixed Action Pattern?
Stereotyped, Spontaneous, Independent of Immediate Control, Genetically Encoded, and Independent of Individual Learning.
What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
Immigration is the influx of new individuals. Emigration is the movement of individuals out of a population.
What are the two types of ecological successions?
Primary and Secondary
What is determined by the temperature and rainfall?
Climate
What are some reasons a habitat is lost?
Construction, urbanization, agriculture, and deforestation
In the dog, bell, food connection what does the bell represent?
Stimuli
What is it when you are small, mature early, and have a short lifespan, producing many offspring?
R-selection
Human activities
How many terrestrial ecosystems are there and how many aquatic ecosystems are there?
8 terrestrial, and 9 aquatic
How many known endangered species are there?
What best helps to increase a males fitness?
Mating with many females to increase their number of offspring.
In infant mortality, there is a number of infant deaths per how many live births.
1,000
What are the 7 parts of the Carbon Cycle?
Photosynthesis, Respiration, Consumption, Decomposition, Combustion, Fossilization, and Ocean exchange
What is another word for Biomes?
Terrestrial Ecosystem
What is a species that will out compete native species for resources, introduce diseases or pests, and damage property or ecosystems.
Nonnative Species