Chp 1. Vocabulary
Population
What is a group of the same type of organisms living in he same area?
Within a _______ organisms are always being born and dying.
What is population?
Reproduction
What is the process of creating offsprings
Organisms need to release energy from energy storage molecules in order to _________.
This creature traps zooplankton on the sticky underside of their bell shaped bodies
What is Moon Jellies
All the living and non-living tings interacting in a particular area.
What is ecosystem?
A system can be ______ even as things are being added to and removed from it. If the amounts being added and being removed are not equal, then the system will not change.
What is stable?
A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy they need to survive.
What is energy storage molecule?
Organisms in consumer populations get energy storage molecules from eating organisms in _______ populations.
What is resource?
This creature contains spines in their mouths to keep jellyfish they swallow from escaping
What is the leatherback sea turtle?
Sample
What is a small part that is meant to show a whole
If the number of births and deaths in a given time are _____, then the population size will be stable.
Consumer population
What is the population that eats organism from another population
The more energy storage molecules available to a population, the more the _______ in a population can reproduce.
What is organisms?
This shows how many different species are part of an ecosystem
What is Biodiversity
Stability
What is stays mostly the same over time
If there are more births than deaths in a given time,, then the size of the population will ______.
What is increase?
Resource Population
What is a population that is eaten by other organisms from another population?
The larger the resource population, the more energy storage molecules are available from the ________ population.
What is consumer?
The Ant and the Acacia Tree have what type of symbiotic relationship?
What is mutualism
Define Indirect Effect
If there are fewer births than deaths, then the population size will ________.
What is decrease?
Producer Population
What is the population that produces it's own food?
The larger the consumer population, the more _______ _________ molecules it will need
What is energy storage?
Southern Benguela is off which coast?
What is, South Africa