Species, land and extinction
The range of conditions that an organism can endure
What is ecological tolerance?
What is the biosphere?
The amount of energy that flows from one trophic level to another.
What is 10%
The host is eventually killed
What is parasitoidism?
The type of species that are only found in one area.
What are endemic?
Lichens and moss are this type of species.
What are pioneer species?
The total number of terrestrial biomes.
What is 9?
An organism that gets its energy directly from the sun.
What are autotrophs?
Cattle grazing and insects is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is amensalism?
Any group of living organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
A small number of organisms become isolated from a large population and establish a community leading to a reduction in genetic information.
What is the found effect?
The biome with a growing season less than 100 days.
What is the Taiga?
An organism that feeds of the tissue of dead animals.
What are scavengers?
Traits that helps the species survive.
What is adaptative trait?
The survivorship curve that shows low mortality early in life is type ______________.
What is type I?
When one ecosystem merges with the next
What is an ecotone?
The biome with hot dry summer and cool winters with aromatic herbs.
What is the shrubland?
The level on the ecological pyramid with the most energy available.
What are the producers?
The process where a certain genetic trait becomes more dominant due to its advantages.
What is natural selection?
Total deaths divided by the total population times 1000.
What is the Crude Death Rate?
Who is Alfred Wallace?
All organism in a community has an equal evenness.
What is a big species evenness?
The species that has a large impact on the ecosystem regardless of how abundant they are.
What are keystone species?
When a harmless species imitates the appearance of a harmful species to avoid predation.
What is Batesian Mimicry?
Has a low parental investment
What are R-Selected Species?