Ecology Basics
Features of an ecosystem that are living are _______
What is biotic?
Consumers that eat only other consumers
What is carnivores?
Symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit
What is Mutualism?
Nitrogen is used for this in living things
What are proteins/amino acids?
An organisms habitat and exactly what they do there (address and occupation)
What is niche?
The factors that lead to population growth
What is immigration and birth rate?
Features of an ecosystem that are nonliving
What is abiotic?
The tropic level with the most energy and biomass
What is producers?
Symbiotic relationship where one benefits and the other is neutral
What is commensalism?
What are the two parts of the phosphorus cycle?
Local and geological
A crab and a lobster fight over the same piece of food. This is what type of competition?
What is interspecies?
Most populations have logarithmic growth because every ecosystem has a
What is carrying capacity?
The difference between communities and ecosystems
What is ecosystems include abiotic features?
90% of energy lost between trophic levels is lost to this
What is heat/metabolism?
The relationship between a tick and a human can be described as_________
What is parasitism?
How do humans disrupt the carbon cycle?
Combustion (In excess)
Two walruses are fighting over mates. This is an example of _______ competition
What is intraspecies?
The type of growth curve most populations have
What is logarithmic?
Autotrophs make their own _________
What is food/nutrients?
If producers have 43500 kcal of energy in them, how much will the secondary consumers have?
What is 435 kcal?
The type of succession where farmland is converted back into a natural ecosystem
What is secondary succession?
The process where bacteria convert Nitrates in the soil into Nitrogen gas in the atmosphere
What is denitrifying?
Organisms can share a similar niche and avoid the competition by doing this
What is resource partitioning?
If there are limitless resources available, you would expect to see this growth curve
What is exponential?
Winograsky columns allow us to study this level of organization in biology (ex. cells, individuals, populations, communities)
What is ecosystems?
Process where organisms get their energy from the bonds between inorganic molecules rather than the sun.
What is chemosynthesis?
Organisms that help build soil in the process of primary succession
What is pioneer species?
The process where excess nitrogen and phosphorus in the water leads to dead zones
What is eutrophication?
The principle that states no two organisms can live in the exact same niche at the exact same time.
What it the competitive exclusion principle?
This type of population has fewer babies and invests more time into raising them
What is k adapted?