Species
Carrying Capacity
Bio-Diversity
Conservation Biology
Dimensions of Biodiversity
100

These species, whose presence or absence, govern
the existence and overall composition of the system.

Keystone Species

100

What is the largest number of individuals of one that an ecosystem can support called?

Carrying Capacity. 

100

The greater the number of species means _______ biodiversity. 

More

100

The science of analyzing and preserving existing biological diversity.

Conservation Biology

100

Within the dimensions of biodiversity, how many components are there?

Four (4)

200

A keystone species holds a community............ .

Together

200

In all populations, the factors that limit or restrict the number of individuals in a population Are called what? 

Limiting Factors

200

Biodiversity increases as you move toward what?

A. The Poles

B. The Equator

Equator

200

Conservation biology conserves what? 

What is "left"

200

Daily, Seasonal, annual and ecological/ evolutionary components best describe which dimension of biodiversity? 

Temporal

300

Elimination of a keystone species dramatically alters the structure and function of what? 

Ecosystem

300

Give an example of a limiting factor. 

Food, water, shelter, mates, nesting materials, & C.

300

Biodiversity provides what to an ecosystem?

A. Instability

B. Stability

Stability

300

This word means the variety of life on Earth at all its levels

Biodiversity

300

Individual, population, between populations or species components best describe which dimension of biodiversity?

Genetic

400

When a Keystone species is removed from an ecosystem, a prey species undergo what?

Ecological Release

400

In a real ecosystem, a population with fluctuate (move) ___________ and _____________ the carrying capacity. 

Above and Below

400

These have producers, primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. 

Food Chain

400

While Conservation Biology wants to “conserve what is left”, Restoration Ecology wants to do what?  

Restore what once was

400

Reproductive behavior, predation and parasitism components best describe which dimension of biodiversity?

Functional

500

Jackalope

500

If a population goes above its carrying capacity, some individuals will _______.

Die

500

In an ecosystem, living things have ______________ relationships. 

Symbiotic

500

Which would a Conservation Biologists be concerned with?

A. Conserving or preserving existing biological diversity.

B. Restoring an biological diversity to a level seen previously. 

A. Conserving or preserving existing biological diversity.

500

Communities, ecosystems, landscapes, and biographic region components best describe which dimension of biodiversity?

Spatial

1000

Living species can be ______________ for other living things. 

Niches

1000

D

1000

Biodiversity ___________ as you move toward the poles.

Decreases

1000

Conservation Biologists want save biodiversity ________ it becomes damaged, degraded or destroyed. 

Before

1000

Within Conservation Biology, Genetic, Spatial, Functional and Temporal Components are part of what?

Dimensions of Biodiversity