Organismal
A living thing that has an organized structure, can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and maintain homeostasis.
What is an organism?
A group of individuals of the same species in the same area.
What is community?
A common demand by two or more organisms upon a limited supply of a resource; for example, food, water, light, space, mates, nesting sites.
What is competition?
Non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
A large geographical area classified by its shared climate, soil types, and dominant plant and animal life.
What is a biome?
As populations grow individuals tend to compete for?
What are resources?
The sum total of an organism's interaction with the biotic and abiotic resources of its environment.
What is an environmental niche?
a group of different, interacting populations of species inhabiting a common location, time, and space.
What is community?
A functional ecological unit comprising all living organisms interacting with each other and their non-living physical environment in a specific area.
What is an ecosystem?
Cold, windy, and dry, with low vegetation.
What is a tundra?
An organism that eats other organisms.
What is a consumer?
An organism that cannot create it's own food and must consume other organisms to acquire energy.
What is a heterotroph?
A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other.
What is symbiosis?
The largest population that an environment can support at any given time.
What is carrying capacity?
Minimal rainfall and specialized, sparse vegetation.
What is a desert?
the process by which a species becomes fitted to its environment.
What is adaptation?
A graphical representation used to visualize the frequency distribution of a continuous, numerical variable within a population or sample.
What is a histogram?
A symbiotic relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Natural interconnection of food chains in the representation of energy transfer through what-eats-what in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Hot and wet year-round, home to high biodiversity.
What is a tropical rainforest?
How do specific species maintain internal conditions in extreme environments?
What is homeostasis?
The number of individuals of a certain species per unit area or volume.
What is population density?
The gradual replacement of species; existing species are replaced by different species over periods of time.
What is succession?
A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
Saltwater environments, including oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries.
What are marine biomes?