Ecosystems and Habitat
What are the five essential elements that habitat must provide?
Food, water, Shelter/Cover, Space, and Arrangement.
About __% of energy is transferred to the next trophic level.
10%
_____ are important for cavity nesters.
Snags.
What is a arthropod?
Insects.
What are ectotherms?
Cold-blooded.
What are the base of the aquatic food chain?
Phytoplankton.
What are the three types of symbiosis?
Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism.
Many insects and amphibians spend the egg and larval or nymph stages of their lives in what?
Wetlands.
Deer, bear, wild turkey, and waterfowl are known as what?
Big game.
_______ are species that provide insight to the health of an ecosystem by their presence and health.
Bioindicators.
The community of living organisms interacting with the abiotic factors in their environment are known as an?
Ecosystem.
_______ exists when two or more organisms use the same resources.
Competition.
The number of different types of organisms in an area called ______
Species diversity or biodiversity.
What is non-consumptive use?
Wildlife that are not hunted or trapped and are often valued for other recreation.
Honeybees, moths, and butterflies are widely recognized insect _______.
Pollinators.
The study of how living factors interact with each other and their non-living environment is called what?
Ecology.
In any ecosystem the energy flows through a series of?
Organisms.
______ ______ is the maximum number of individuals of a species that a habitat can support without degradation of that habitat.
Carrying capacity.
Invertebrates have no what?
Backbone.
What % of vertebrates are fish?
50%
When multiple populations of varying species come together in the same area are a called what?
Community.
Bodies of already dead animals are known as carcasses or _____?
Carrion.
When the habitat is suitable, populations generally increase in number, but that potential growth is often restricted by one or more _______.
limiting factors.
What dose Arthro mean?
Joint.
What are some of the tools used in Integrated Pest Management.
Biological controls, chemical insecticides, agricultural methods, and mechanical controls.