Environmental Science Ecology
What is abiotic?
A mechanism of evolution that involves inherited variations or adaptation.
What is natural selection?
The name for an animal that hunts and kills other animals
What is a Predator?
An organism that eats meat
What is a carnivore?
A relationship where both animals benefit.
What is Mutualism?
A living thing that can make its' own food
What is a producer/plant?
The growth rate of bacteria
What living things reproduce at an exponential rate?
2 organisms that help one another. Both benefit from this relationship.
What is mutalism?
Another name for nonliving
What is abiotic?
A tick on a deer
What is parasitism?
A biome with high temperatures year-round and high precipitation.
What is a rain forest?
The term used to describe the max amount an environment can support itself and its organisms without overuse.
What is carrying capacity?
A tick on a human is an example of this.
What is parasitism?
The name of the organisms that come second on a food web
A barnacle and a whale
commensalism
A group of organisms of the same kind capable of breeding living in one area.
What is a species?
After splitting into two isolated populations, genetic changes make it impossible for an individual from one of the two populations to reproduce with an individual from the other.
What is speciation?
The Cattle Egret lives in Cow pastures eating the bugs that could potentially harm the Cows. They get food and the cows get protection.
What is mutualism?
A species ability to adapt and reproduce.
What is fitness?
When two organism fight over the same resource
What is competition
All of the member of a species living in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
Birth rate, death rate, lack of food, lack of resources which make it difficult to grow a population in an area.
What is a limiting factor?
Commensalism
What is the relationship between 2 organisms where one is unharmed and the other benefits in some way?
The organisms that come first on a food web
What is a producer?
A close relationship between 2 organisms of different species. Neither organism is harmed by the relationship.
What is symbiosis?