In the hierarchy of life, THIS is made up from a group of a particular organisms.
What is a population?
100
this law states that atoms do not change and are not created or destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
100
THESE graph how populations grow and are used to find how fast a population could grow, how many individuals there are now, and what the future population size could be
What is population growth curve?
100
ecosystems having similar vegetation and climactic conditions
What is a biome?
100
the type of value when a species’ or organism’s existence or use benefits some other entity
What is instrumental value?
200
THESE are the two parts of an official species name.
What are genus and the species descriptive term?
200
the 3 states of energy
What are kinetic, potential, and chemical energy?
200
the curve of exponential growth
What is the "J" curve?
200
THIS describes where energy and nutrients go as they move from one organism to another
What is a food web?
200
The use of natural ecosystems in which people harvest natural resources for food, shelter, tools, fuel, clothing
What is consumptive use?
300
THIS is an interactive complex of communities and the abiotic environment affecting them within an area
What is an ecosystem?
300
this is a measure of the degree of disorder in a system
What is entropy?
300
logistic growth curves level off near THIS level and can become an "S" shaped curve as population cycles above and below THIS level.
What is the carrying capacity?
300
THIS trophic category contains consumers
What are heterotrophs?
300
managing or regulating biota and ecosystem use so it does not exceed the capacity of the species or system to renew itself
What is conservation?
400
a large area of Earth with the same climate and similar vegetation
What is a biome?
400
law that states energy is neither created nor destroyed but it may be converted from one form to another
What is First Law of Thermodynamics?
400
these type of curves show how the number of survivors changes as a particular species ages over time.
What is survivorship curve?
400
the process of initial invasion and progression from one biotic community to another
What is primary succession?
400
the acronym "HIPPO" refers to what?
Current threats to biodiversity such as...
Habitat destruction
Invasive species
Pollution
Population
Overexploitation
500
the states that any factor outside the optimal range will cause stress and limit growth, reproduction, and survival of a population
What is the Law of Limiting Factors?
500
A can of soda labeled as "200 calories" contains enough energy to raise the temperature of how many grams of water, 1 degree C?
What is 200,000 grams.
500
THIS is determined by increasing environmental resistance and increasing biotic potential determine
What is population density?
500
this is the biome in which we live
What is temperate deciduous forest?
500
this is defined as the optimal population size for harvesting a species and represents the point in which the population size is increases at the fastest rate.