From Egg to Apocalypse
The reproductive strategy of larger animals with longer lifespans. Would not survive an apocalyptic event.
What is K-selection?
Types of organisms that can make their own energy.
What is an autotroph?
The non-living components of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
What is a mutualism?
The source of energy in all food chains.
What is the sun?
The maximum size a population can be sustained in an ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
The term to describe an organism that mostly eats insects.
What is an insectivore?
All the ants of the same species in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
A non-native organism that establishes and reproduces quickly, often causing ecological or economical damage.
What is an invasive species?
The aeration of soil by living organisms.
What is bioturbation?
The reproductive strategy of cockroaches and other small animals that reproduce often and don't take care of their young. Best suited for shifting environments.
What is r-selection?
The type of organism that eats other organisms for energy.
What is a heterotroph?
All the living species in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
A parasite that lives on the inside of its host.
What is an endoparasite?
Organisms like raccoons or vultures that eat dead things but do not chemically break down the organic matter.
What is a scavenger?
The phase of invasive establishment where an organism survives transportation and begins to reproduce.
What is the Lag Phase?
The term for an organism that is not picky about what it eats.
What is a generalist?
Community + Abiotic elements.
What is an ecosystem?
The relationship between two organisms that rely on the same resource, but do not eat each other. Also a density-dependent population factor.
What is competition?
The control technique that involves supporting natural enemies that already exist.
What is Conservation Control?
This insect was purposefully brought to Massachusetts by a french guy, and then escaped his backyard. A terrible forest pest.
What is the Spongy Moth?
A role of organisms that break down dead organic matter and make resources available to microscopic organisms.
What is a detritivore?
A specific version of an ecosystem, all combine to make up the biosphere.
What is a biome?
A type of parasite that kills its host, like a wasp that lays eggs inside a caterpillar.
What is a parasitoid?
The process of insects converting the ammonia/ammonium in dead organic matter into nitrate.
What is mineralization?