Ecology
Factors in an ecosystem that are not living and have never been alive.
What are abiotic factors?
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
carnivore
When two or more different species compete for the same resource.
What is interspecific competition?
A single living thing.
What is an organism/individual?
This camouflage helps sharks and fish blend in with the sky above and the dark water below.
What is counter shading?
2 organisms that help one another. Both benefit from this relationship.
What is mutualism?
Parts of an ecosystem that are alive or were once alive.
What is a biotic factor?
This limiting factor usually involves biotic factors like disease, predation, and competition.
What is a density-dependent limiting factor?
the amount of energy that gets passed on to the next trophic level
10%
The term used to describe the maximum amount of organisms an environment can support without overuse.
What is carrying capacity?
A tick on a human is an example of this.
What is parasitism?
The first organisms that eat producers in a food web.
What is a primary consumer?
This type of limiting factor usually involves abiotic occurrences like floods, volcanos, or tornados.
What is a density-independent limiting factor?
The level of organization that first includes both abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
Population growth that occurs without limiting factors. Bacteria often show this kind of growth.
What is exponential growth?
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?
When two organisms from different species have a relationship. Examples are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
What is Symbiosis?
When two or more organisms 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
Disease, natural disasters, lack of resources, etc. which stop a population from growing.
What is a limiting factor?
A relationship between 2 organisms where one is unharmed and the other benefits in some way.
The organisms that make their own food in a food web.
What are producers?
Most species show this type of growth. A graph that includes a carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?