Natural Selection
Niche
Competition
Predation
The Effect of Preditation on Population Size
100
How do individuals survive in and environment?
What are unique characteristics
100
How do organism's adaptations help it to survive?
What are organisms that have a variety of adaptations that are suited to their specific living conditions.
100
What are the major ways in which organisms in an ecosystem interact?
What arecompetition,predation,and symbiosis.
100
What is the organism that is killed in predation?
What is prey
100
what happens when there are many predators
What is a decrease inn the size of the population of their prey
200
What a happens to individuals with poor characteristics?
What is less of a chance to survive and reproduce
200
What is niche?
What is the role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living.
200
What is the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource?
What is competition
200
a tiger shark lurks around in the oceanlooking for shadows of albatross chicks floating above which one do you think wins?
What is the tiger shark
200
what does a decrease in the number of prey do?
What is less food for their predatprs
300
Define Adaptations
What are the behaviors and phsical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments
300
The organisms in the saguaro community have adaptationsthat results in what?
What are specific living conditions
300
why is it that the roadrunner and the elf owl both live on the saguro in figure 13?
What is that different species can share the same habitat and food requirements
300
what is a predator?
What is the organism that does the killing in a predation intteraction
300
what happens without adequate food?
What is the decline of predator population
400
What is natural selection?
What are characteristics that make an individual better siuted to its environment
400
What does a niche include?
What are the types of food the organisms eat, how it obtains the food, and which other organisms use the organism as food
400
If two species occupy the same niche, one of the species will eventually die off. What is this?
What is competition
400
what is an interaction in which one organism kills another for food
What is predation
400
Populations of predators and their prey rise and fall. What is this called?
What are related cycles
500
How does natural selection work?
What is individuals with unique characteristics that are best suited to their environment tend to surivie and produce and offspring.The offspring inherits the characteristics and also lives to reproduce.
500
What does a niche also include?
What is when and how they reproduce and the physical conditions it requires to survive
500
Each wrabler in figure 14 specializes in feeding in a certain part of a spruce tree. what is the called?
What is how three specias coexist
500
What were the tiger shark and the albatroos involved in?
What is a predator-prey interaction
500
Predation can have a major effect on the size of populatoin. What is the result?
What is the decrease of that poulation
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