Mutualism
A relationship in which both members benefit.
What is mutualism?
It is the definition of commensalism.
What is the relationship between two species in which one benefits and the other is neither harmed or hurt?
Succession where glaciers retreat and bare rock is left.
What is primary succession?
Biogeography is_____________
What is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. .
An area with high species diversity would be considered
What is a healthier/or more stable ecosystem?
An interaction between two different species that live in close proximity to one another.
What is symbiosis?
An example of commensalism
(Examples are many)
What is the dog and human, Remora and shark, cleaner fish and other fish, epiphytes and trees
Succession in which a fire or flood affected the land.
What is secondary succession?
Biogeography shapes species_____________ on the earth.
What is distribution?
Is a series of extinctions triggered by a primary keystone species extinction.
What is ecological cascade?
Ants and the Acacia trees have a mutualistic relationship where the ants will what two things from the tree?
What is shelter/protection and food?
One type of commensal relationship where one species depends on the other to flourish
What is metabiosis?
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called this.
What are abiotic factors?
The study of the fragmentation of species due to the formations of islands.
What is island biogeography?
The name for the number of different species represented in a community.
What is species richness?
Symbiosis is translated from the Greek words meaning______________
What is "living together?"
Another type of commensalism in which one species uses the other for lodging or shelter.
What is inquilinism?
The largest population of any single species an area can hold that is determined by the available energy, water, oxygen and minerals available as well as by the interaction of organisms (food supply and competition).
What is carrying capacity?
The continent of Australia is an excellent examples of how the isolation of land masses effects the distribution of species. About 75% of all the species of plants and animals in Australia are unique to that continent. This is due to a phenomenon involving the earth's crust.
What is continental drift and the break up of Pangea causing landmass isolation.
Refers to how close in numbers each species in an environment is.
What is species evenness?
Coral reefs are a result of the mutualistic relationship between which two organisms?
What are coral and algae?
Type of commensalism that involves one species travelling on the other without parasitism.
What is phoresy?
Struggle between organism for the same resources. This keeps the size of a species population in check.
What is competition?
Credited with making biogeography popular with his studies in southeast Asia in the late 19th century.
Who is Alfred Wallace?
Reason species diversity is important to humans.
What is for the health of the ecosystem/creations of new medicines/feeding of the world? (any of those answers)