Basics of Ecology
Out of a biome, a community, and an ecosystem, this is the broadest term
What is a biome?
This cycle is entirely driven by the Sun and has little biotic contribution
What is the hydrologic cycle?
Population size is limited around this number that represents the maximum number of a certain organism an ecosystem can hold
What is the carrying capacity?
What is commensalism?
The only main stage of the hydrologic cycle that involves a biotic factor
What is transpiration?
Ecology is the study of these between two organisms or between an organism and its environment
What are relationships?
The process that makes up the main human impact on the carbon cycle
What is combustion?
This growth pattern starts out exponential then plateaus at the carrying capacity
What is logistic growth?
Mating is only fought for in this type of competition
What is intraspecific competition?
What is nitrogen fixation?
Unlike a phylogenetic tree, this diagram does not show ancestral relationships
What is a cladogram?
Geologic processes convert carbon into a fuel in this process
What is fossilization?
Territorial species usually exhibit this population distribution
What is uniform distribution?
Another word for a relationship where one organism consumes another
What is predation?
Wastes are converted into a gas in this process in the nitrogen cycle that bears that gas's name
What is ammonification?
An ecosystem is a community plus these aspects of the environment
What are abiotic factors?
During this process, bacteria convert ammonia into nitrogen gas and return it to the atmosphere
What is denitrification?
These factors that restrict a population's size are mainly biotic
What are density-dependent limiting factors?
Pollinators and flowering plants are a classic example of this type of relationship
What is mutualism?
This population distribution is characteristic of species that find safety in numbers
What is a clumped distribution?
Producers and consumers are also known by these names, respectively
What are autotrophs and heterotrophs?
What is nitrification?
DAILY DOUBLE
A type I one of these visual representations of age distribution is characteristic of the human population
One organism raising another organism's eggs as if the eggs were theirs is an example of this relationship
What is parasitism?
These factors that restrict the growth of any population regardless of size are usually abiotic
What are density-independent limiting factors?