Population Dynamics
What is the term for the maximum number of individuals an environment can sustain?
What is carrying capacity?
What term describes a relationship where both species benefit?
What is mutualism?
What is the ultimate source of energy for most ecosystems?
What is the Sun?
What is the term for the number of individuals per unit area?
What is population density?
The variety of species in an area is known as what?
What is species diversity?
This model describes population growth with unlimited resources.
What is exponential growth?
This is the type of competition that occurs between individuals of different species.
What is interspecific competition?
Animals that regulate their body temperature internally are called what?
What are endotherms?
Survivorship curves show the number of individuals surviving at what?
What is each age interval?
What term describes the first species to colonize a disturbed area?
What is pioneer species?
The letter "r" in population growth models refers to what?
What is the intrinsic rate of increase?
What is the term for a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its community?
What is a keystone species?
Give an example of a physiological adaptation to temperature stress.
What is shivering or sweating (any valid example)?
Which survivorship curve type is typical of humans?
What is a Type I survivorship curve?
What is the name for the number of different species in a community?
What is species richness?
Name one example of a density-dependent factor.
What is competition (or predation, disease)?
Define ecological niche.
What is the role and position a species has in its environment?
What do we call animals that rely on the environment to regulate their body temperature?
What are ectotherms?
What life-history strategy involves producing many offspring with little parental care?
What is r-selected?
What do we call the process of change in species structure in a community over time?
What is ecological succession?
What kind of growth occurs when resources become limited over time?
What is logistic growth?
What principle states that two species competing for the same resource cannot coexist indefinitely?
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
What adaptation helps desert animals avoid overheating during the day?
hat is being active at night (or nocturnality)?
What kind of dispersion is often caused by territorial behavior?
What is uniform dispersion?
How does intermediate disturbance theory explain higher biodiversity?
What is that moderate levels of disturbance prevent dominance by one species and allow coexistence?