Populations
These lines on a map, given in degrees, express how far North or South a location is.
What is latitude?
A river or stream that joins into another larger river.
What is a tributary?
A physical location where a nutrient or substance is kept. (Not time dependent.)
What is a reservoir?
The change in caloric availability from a trophic level to the one above it.
What is 10 percent?
The two key variables in Island Biogeography Theory.
What are area and distance from the mainland?
The maximum number of individuals in a species that a given habitat can support.
What is carrying capacity?
The waste/wastewater released into a natural body of water.
What is effluent?
The two major processes of the Carbon cycle.
What are photosynthesis and respiration?
Members of the same species fighting over the same resources.
What is intraspecific competition?
When two species diverge due to physical separation.
What is allopatric speciation?
A species that can subsist off a broad diet is an example of this.
What is a generalist?
The process of surface water seeping into the ground.
What is infiltration?
This nutrient cycle has no gaseous phase.
What is phosphorus?
An organism that undergoes photosynthesis. This term roughly translates to "self-feeding".
What is an autotroph?
The ecological recovery process that follows total loss of life and soil.
What is primary succession?
Higher mortality rates at older ages are characteristic of this type of survivorship.
What is Type I survivorship?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! You can wager up to 600.
What is (evapo)transpiration? The process of plants releasing water vapor directly into the atmosphere.
The artificial acceleration of vegetation growth and nutrient abundance in a body of water.
What is cultural eutrophication?
Herbivores can also be referred to as this, when speaking in terms of trophic levels.
What are primary consumers?
This level of ecological diversity can be represented by the Simpson's Diversity Index.
What is species diversity?
A type of species that reproduces often and in great numbers, often with minimal parental care.
What is r-selection?
A groundwater body with an impermeable rock layer between itself and the surface.
What is a confined aquifer?
The human-invented mechanism of nitrogen fixation.
What is the Haber-Bosch Process?
Pollination, decomposition, and water purification are all examples of which type of ecosystem service?
What is regulating?
When ecological recovery from a disturbance is guided by human involvement.
What is deflected succession?