Vocabulary
Carrying Capacity
Relationships in a Habitat
Reindeer on the Pribilof Islands
Dietary Diversity
100
A group of organisms of the same kind.
What is population?
100
A place where organisms live naturally is called this...
What is habitat?
100
Hunts for, captures, and eats all or part of its prey....
What is a predator?
100
Is flat, treeless, Arctic land.....
What is tundra?
100
According to the lesson, what does diversity mean?
What is variety?
200
The number of organisms within a population that a habitat can support without losing its resources or damaging them severely.
What is carrying capacity?
200
Are lower and upper limits of any factor that a species can tolerate, or allow, and still survive...
What is tolerance?
200
A balancing point....
What is equilibrium?
200
The two largest islands of the Pribilof Islands are these....
What are St. Paul and St. George?
200
One of the primary purposes of wildlife management is to do this.....
What is to maintain the health and size of wildlife populations?
300
Any factor that limits the growth, the numbers of, or the distribution of organisms within an ecosystem.
What is limiting factor?
300
Is a community, or collection of populations of different plants and animals that share a physical environment....
What is ecosystem?
300
An ___________ of rodents means that the population of rodents is high.
What is abundance?
300
Government officials introduced 25 reindeer to St. Paul Island during the year of......
What is 1911?
300
Conservation biology focuses on this....
What is the preservation and protection of biodiversity?
400
Beyond the natural limits by which all organisms can be sustained.
What is exceeded?
400
These two types of ecosystems have different chemical and physical characteristics....
What are biomes and aquatic ecosystems?
400
Give four examples of limiting factors for a squirrel.
What are food, water, space, and shelter?
400
What is a major source of food for reindeer?
What are lichens?
400
What is Kelp?
What is a multicellular algae?
500
Terms that are specific to a subject area.
What is jargon?
500
The largest terrestrial ecosystems are called this.....
What are biomes?
500
According to the lesson, name the two species that represent a predator-prey relationship....
What are a fox and rabbit?
500
These limit growth in the tundra....
What are little liquid water and poor soil?
500
Name at least three animals in the Kelp Forest food web.
What are crabs, fish, sea otters, sea urchins, marine snails, and sea stars?
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