Chapter 5
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Chapter 8
Miscellaneous
100
The full range of resources that an organism could use.
What is a fundamental niche?
100
The two main characteristics that affect an area's overall climate.
What is temperature and precipitation?
100
Two major types of aquatic biomes.
What are freshwater and marine?
100
The two factors that affect island biogeography.
What are island size and isolation?
100
This is when a warmer, less dense air mass is replacing a cooler, more dense air mass.
What is a warm front?
200
A factor affecting biological evolution which is a result of the selective breeding for traits by humans.
What is artificial selection?
200
Through this process, animals become dormant in response to high temperatures and arid conditions.
What is aestivation?
200
Type of lake with the lowest biodiversity (Mesotrophic, Eutrophic, Oligotrophic).
What is oligotrophic lake?
200
The human fragmentation of an ecosystem puts stress on this type of species especially.
What are specialized species?
200
How much an organism has genetically passed on to the next generation.
What is fitness?
300
This is reflexive of the rates of speciation and rates of extinction in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
300
A biome characterized by warm summers and cold winters, and which receives plenty of precipitation in fall, winter, and spring. There are mostly grasses and forbs growing here. Examples include the Veldt, the Steppes, and the Pampas.
What is a temperate grassland?
300
The open ocean zone that would MOST likely not have phytoplankton.
What is the abyssal zone?
300
Posion dart frogs as well as monarch butterflies use this method to elude predators.
What is apoesmatic coloration?
300
When the Sun is directly above the Earth at this latitudinal line, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing summer.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
The five main gases that made up the Earth's early atmosphere.
What are CO2 (carbon-dioxide), NH3(ammonia), CH4(methane), hydrogen and nitrogen gases?
400
The direction a low pressure system rotates in the northern hemisphere as a result of the Coriolis effect.
What is counter-clockwise?
400
With summer thermal stratification, the layer that has the highest amount of dissolved Oxygen (Thermocline, Hypolimnion, Epilimnion)
What is epilimnion?
400
Different ecosystems tend to have differences in this stage of succession as a result precipitation, disturbances, and temperature.
What is a climax community?
400
An example of this is the interaction between the keystone species of flying foxes and the durian fruits they pollinate.
What is mutualism?
500
Only through these can organisms pass on original variation in genes to their offspring as a result of mutagens or mistakes in DNA replication.
What are reproductive cells?
500
This occurs during El Niño when water is pushed up against western North and South America. It is a result of the increased sea levels and decreased up-wellings which normally allow for nutrients to be brought up from the bottom of the ocean. (energy pyramid)
What is decreased primary productivity?
500
Which lentic zone is upper layer away from shore that light reaches where most of the primary productivity takes place?
What is the limnetic zone?
500
Competition for mates does NOT cause this type of competition.
What is interspecific competition?
500
The principle developed by G.F. Gause and what it states.
What is Competitive Exclusion Principle: Two species cannot live indefinitely if they both need the same finite resource in an area (one will out compete the other)?
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