Food Web/Chain
Cycles
Names
Population Ecology
Biodiversity
100
organism that starts the food web or food chain
What is an autotroph or producer
100
ultimate source of energy for the biosphere
What is The Sun
100
an organism that makes their own food
What is an autotroph or producer
100
the birth rate of a population
What is natality
100
degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome or biosphere
What is biodiversity
200
flows through a food web/chain, shown by arrows
What is energy
200
cycle that hydrologists study
What is the water cycle
200
name of the relationship where organisms both benefit
What is mutualism
200
death rate of a population
What is mortality
200
two distinct components of biodiversity
What is species richness, species abundance
300
amount of energy lost from one trophic level to the next
What is 90%, only 10% left over
300
cycle that involves an inorganic unusable form until bacteria break it down for plants
What is nitrogen cycle
300
a group of individuals or a group of species
What is a population
300
certain characteristics all populations must have (3)
What are population density, spatial distributions, and growth rate
300
total number of different species that live in a community
What is species richness
400
a simple model used by Ecologists to study flow of energy between a small number of individuals
What is food chain
400
four cycles we've discussed in class
What is water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus
400
process in which plants convert sun energy, carbon dioxide, and water into glucose (sugar) and oxygen
What is photosynthesis
400
the 2 types of limiting factors that limit population
What is density-independent and density-dependent
400
how common individuals of the species are compared to other species in the same community
What is species abundance
500
the levels of organization from smallest to largest (6)
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
500
one of the SLOWEST cycles we've talked about
What is phosphorus cycle
500
a population splitting into two geographically isolated populations
What is allopatric speciation
500
maximum number of individuals in a species that an environment can support for the long term
What is carrying capacity
500
formation of two or more species from a single ancestral species in the same location
What is sympatric
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