Disturbances
What are the main threats to biodiversity? (name all four)
What is habitat loss, global change, invasive species, over harvesting?
Are decomposers prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
Prokaryotes
What is a behavior?
An animal response to a stimulus positive or negative
A group of individuals of the same species living in an area is called what?
What is a population?
The organism a parasite draws nutrients from is called this
What is a host?
What is the greatest disturbance?
What is human activity?
What are the two types of trophic structures?
Food Chain and Food Web
What is geotaxis?
movement in response to gravity
What are two examples of density dependent selection?
What is competition, toxic wastes, territoriality, disease, intristic factors?
What is a keystone species?
Species that aren't abundant but play a pivotal role in a community.
What are the two types of ecological succession?
What is primary and secondary succession?
Smaller organisms have a lower or higher metabolic rate?
Higher Metabolic Rate
What is ethology?
the study of how evolutionary processes shape inherited behaviors and the ways animals respond to specific stimuli
Are the pride-landers and the outsiders the same population at the end of Lion King 2?
What is yes?
The niche potentially occupied by the species if there were no limiting factors is called this
What is fundamental niche?
What are pathogens?
What is Disease causing organisms and viruses?
What is a apex predator?
A predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.
Why a behavior occurs
Ultimate Cause
What are two examples of density- independent selection?
What is weather, climate, natural disasters?
A Low diversity index shows a ------- biodiversity.
What are two types of global change?
What is air/water pollution, acid rain, CO2 emissions, ocean acidification?
Name one abiotic factor that can be in a terrestrial ecosystem.
Water, Weather, or Type of Soil
Movements directed toward or away from a stimulus
Directed Movements
What three things affects populations?
What is births, deaths, and immigration?
An example of an organism that has a mutualistic relationship with humans is this
What is a dog