Vocabulary
Symbiosis
Food Webs
Miscellaneous Ecology
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100
Non-living factors
What is abiotic?
100
When both species benefit from the relationship
What is mutualism?
100
Also called autotrophs, they make their own food from the energy of the sun
What are producers?
100
All the individuals of the same species living in an area
What is a population?
100
The latest single from Lady Gaga
What is Perfect Illusion?
200
Defined by the ability of individuals to breed and produce fertile offspring
What is a species?
200
When one species consumes the other as food
What is predation?
200
Always herbivores, this type of consumer eats only producers
What are primary consumers?
200
The keystone species that prevents sea urchins from destroying kelp forests
What is the sea otter?
200
The horror movie sequel that's currently in theaters
What is Blair Witch?
300
All the populations living together in an area
What is a community?
300
When one species benefits by harming a host species
What is parasitism?
300
A rule that describes how only 10% of energy and biomass are transferred up each trophic level
What is the Rule of 10?
300
The amount of energy that is used in metabolism and is NOT transferred up to the next trophic level
What is 90%?
300
Tv show about a fictional hip hop dynasty that returned for its third season this week
What is Empire?
400
A species that has an outsize effect on the structure of a community
What is a keystone species?
400
When two species depend on the same resources for survival
What is competition?
400
The organisms that break down dead and decaying organic material into nutrients that are returned to the ecosystem
What are decomposers?
400
The opposite of autotroph
What is heterotroph?
400
Your teacher's favorite tv character
Who is Dana Scully?
500
A species that consumes dead or decaying organic matter
What is a detritivore?
500
When one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
500
The direction of control when a keystone species suppresses the overgrowth of the species it consumes
What is top-down control?
500
When a keystone species is low on the trophic pyramid and benefits a community by supplying resources
What is bottom-up control?
500
LSU football's current ranking the AP Top 25
What is 17?
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