Symbiosis
What is symbiosis in ecology?
The interactions between different species of organisms
Which two animals (that we talked about) evolved to grow longer necks, but only one of them had their short neck version die off?
Giraffes and Galapagos Tortoises
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess on what you think is going to happen
What does an energy pyramid show?
Which career in ecology would allow you to work in ecology, but not have to worry about touching anything too gross, just handling the numbers?
Data management
What type of relationship is it when one organism is harmed and the other is benefiting?
Parasitism
What is the benefit to a blunt, rounded beak adaptation for a bird that lives in trees?
Their beak is less likely to break pecking on a tree
According to the Green World Hypothesis, who is responsible for why plants don't have all their "green" eaten?
Carnivores who eat the herbivores, keeping them "in check"
How does energy transfer through the pyramid?
Being eaten
Name an event that could happen in nature, that would lead an ecologist to study what happened RIGHT AWAY!
*All the frogs dying in a pond
*How Forest fires are spreading
*A fungi spreading among trees
etc...
What type of relationship do a flower and a bee have?
The unfavorable trait could be less likely to survive or find a mate, therefore being unable to reproduce (passing on the unfavorable trait).
What is the principle that says, "no two organisms can occupy the same niche, in the same habitat, at the same time".
Competitive Exclusion Principle
Which level produces the most energy?
The producers/The bottom level
Who is the man who was given money at 22 years old to research ecology around the world in the 1800s?
Charles Darwin
What is the niche of the Flightless Dung Beetle?
Clean up waste of other animals, aerating soil, providing nutrients back to the earth
What conclusion did Darwin come to in regards to offspring every season for a population's evolution?
More offspring will have to be born than are expected to reach maturity.
What is the term for an organism whose complete removal from the ecosystem would cause the ecosystem's downfall?
A Keystone Species
What percentage less of energy is being produced at each trophic level?
10% less
In New Hampshire these are the "Nature Police"
NH Fish and Game
Commensalism is a relationship where one organism is not affected and the other benefits: who benefits between a whale and a barnacle, and how?
A barnacle benefits by growing off of the whale and filter feeding as the water flows past the whale.
How can a new species come to be?
Which idea said: the apex predator controlling the ecosystem with its impact having a downward trophic level effect?
Trophic Cascades
Herbivore because producers produce more energy than the organisms that carnivores eat.
Why would an ecologist use GMOs?
Artificial Selection