Ecology
Living components of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
Planting vegetation, ground cover, no till farming, reducing deforestation
What are ways to prevent soil erosion?
Octopus are considered the most intelligent animal in the phylum
What is mullusca?
All organisms that photosynthesize fall into this nutritional category
What is autotrophs?
Both DNA and RNA molecules contain
What is phosphate groups?
Soils in tropical rain forest are typically nutrient-poor due to
What is heavy annual rain?
an undesirable alteration of the environment
What is pollution?
all of the interacting organisms in a described area
What is a community?
Most the freshwater on earth is found
What is ice caps and glaciers?
Okazaki fragments in DNA replication are combined by this enzyme
What is DNA ligase?
Resources that are not limited in supply because they can be replenished within a few years
What are renewable resources?
ability of an individual to adjust their tolerance to change in their environment
What is acclimation?
Method of sampling in which organisms are caught, tagged, released. Then caught checked for tags and released again
What is capture-recapture method?
Forests help to regulate the global climate by
What is absorbing carbon?
heritable change in a line of descent
What is Evolution?
Swamps, estuaries, coral reefs
What are aquatic biomes?
ability of people to provide goods and services for present and future generations, while preserving biodiversity
What is sustainability?
Number of population members in a habitat at the same time
What is population size?
Scientific use of microorganisms as a biotechnology to help landscapes recover from damage/pollution
What is bioremediation?
Rule of parsimony states that
What is the simplest explanation is best?
ecological relationship between different species that live in direct, long term contact with each other
What is symbiosis?
The year the Dodo bird officially went extinct
What is 1661-1690?
an organism's role, interactions, and resource use within it's environment
What is niche?
A partially enclosed coastal body of water (some mixing of salt and freshwater) that provide sheltered nurseries for many aquatic organisms
What is an Estuary?
Name the NFL team that uses a plant as logo/mascot
Who Dat? The New Orleans Saints! The fleur-de-lis!