Community Ecology
A group of populations living in a given area
What is a community?
These organisms are found at the bottom of every food web.
What are primary producers (autotrophs)?
An example of this interaction is when osprey catches and feeds on a fish
What is predation?
Geological changes that separated continents
What is a continental drift?
This animal licks his elbow to activate venom
What is the slow loris?
An equation that quantifies the diversity of species in a community
What is Simpson's Diversity Index?
Organisms that eat this are found at the second level of an energy pyramid.
What are plants?
The variety of genotypes present within a given population or species
What is genetic diversity?
Because of global warming, they are finding more and more bodies of hikers that have attempted this mountain.
What is Mount Everest?
In Simpson's Diversity Index, this refers to the number of different species
What is species richness?
An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms
What are heterotrophs (consumers)?
An example of this symbiosis is when atlantic puffins use burrows for nesting that were made and once used by rabbits.
What is commensalism?
The is the name scientists have given to possibly the sixth mass extinction event.
This is the name of the tortoise (supposedly) owned by both Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin.
Who is Harriet?
In Simpson's Diversity Index, this represents the number of individuals representing each species in a community
What is species evenness?
This number represents the percent of energy available to 2nd level consumers.
What is 1?
An example of this interaction is when bacteria which live in the human intestine derive their nutrition from digested foods. From these nutrients digested by the human, the bacteria synthesize vitamins usable by the human.
What is mutualism?
This country has the largest ecological footprint.
What is China?
This is the name of the company who has been given the nod by the FDA to sell lab grown meat.
What is GOOD Meat?
What is 0.645?
The biochemical process in which the energy of chemical compounds is used to build sugars
What is chemosynthesis?
Biologists have developed a method of prioritizing conservation efforts by identifying these.
This number represents the latest, daily average reading for atmospheric CO2 on the planet.
What is 424ppm?
This bird does the moonwalk as a form of behavioral reproductive isolation in order to impress the lady birds.
What is the red-capped manakin?