A group of plants or animals that has a high degree of similarity and can generally only interbreed among themselves is known as a _________
What is species?
100
A _____________ eats other organisms to gain energy and nutrients.
What is a consumer?
100
This is when members of a population LEAVE the population.
What is emigration?
100
Each link in a food chain represents a _________
What is a trophic level?
100
Fleas on a dog represent which type of community interaction?
What is parasitism?
200
A school of fish represent which type of population dispersion?
What is clumped?
200
The carrying capacity is the population size that a particular environment can support indefinitely without long-term damage to the environment. You see this in what type of growth?
What is logistic growth?
200
A _______________is a group of animals of the same species living in the same areas that are able to interact and interbred.
What is a population?
200
The Pacific islands have a high rate of habitat destruction and of threatened and endangered species. This makes them be considered _______________________
What are biodiversity hotspots?
200
___________ is the study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and their physical environment
What is ecology?
300
Decomposers and detritivores would also be called ____________
What are saprotrophs?
300
This type of growth is graphically represented by a "J" shaped curve....
What is exponential growth?
300
When you move up a trophic pyramid, there is less energy in each level because the energy is lost as.....
What is heat?
300
Logistic growth is an example of _________ feedback.
What is negative?
300
___________ factors are all the LIVING or ONCE LIVING components of an ecosystem. Also includes the product of living things.
What are biotic factors?
400
Specific resources often become so critical that their availability controls the population size. These type of resources are referred to as _____________
What are limiting factors?
400
A complicated collection of food chains linked together is known as a ___________
What is a food web?
400
_________ describes the location and spacing of individuals within their habitat or range.
What is population distribution?
400
The wolves were eventually reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. To measure their success, biologists monitored their ____________, the number of individuals per unit area.
What is population density?
400
________________ is the way in which individuals of a population are spread in an area or volume.
What is geographic dispersion?
500
_____________ are a group of organisms that convert inorganic atmospheric CO2 into sugar (energy).
What are producers?
500
This is the shallowest of all marine biomes.
What is the intertidal zone?
500
There are some factors that impact a population as it increases. These are known as _______________
What is density dependent?
500
A factor that reduces the population regardless of the population size is known as this.
What is a density independent factor?
500
If the secondary consumer level of a food web has 3250 kJ of energy.....how much energy would have been found in the level containing the autotrophs and the elusive quaternary level?