Vocabulary
Food Webs
Population Ecology
Biodiversity
Misc.
100

The total amount of organisms in an area of the same species? 

What is a population?

100
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthese.
What are Plants?
100

What type of population growth is unlimited? 

What is exponential growth?

100
The definition of biodiversity is _____________________.
What is the variety of different organisms living in a certain area?
100

What is the main reason for wildebeest migration? 

What is finding the most nutritious food? 

200
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200
What type of growth is limited? 

What is logistic growth?

200
The term given to a species that plays a very important role in an ecosystem. The ecosystem would fall apart quickly if this species dissappeared.
What is a keyston species?
200
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
300

The total amount of organisms that an ecosystem can support. 

What is carrying capacity?

300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300

What are things called that prevent a population from growing exponentially? 

What are limiting factors? 

300
Scientists are thinking of reintroducing wolves back into Northern Kentucky.  Identify 2 Interest Holders.

What are conservationists, farmers, local people, etc?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
An organism that breaks down wases and dad organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400

Identify 3 limiting factors? 

What is disease, predating, resources, natural disasters, etc? 

400

What is the term that is the total weight of an organism in an area?

What is biomass? 

400
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
What was the carrying capacity of the wildebeest population? 

What is around 1.3 Billion? 

500

What is the conservation goal the the US has to help protect a variety of species? 

What is the 30 X 30 initiative? 

500
A group of organiss that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
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