Intro to APES
The type of resource that can be replenished within a human lifetime.
What is a Renewable Resource?
This type of relationship involves 2 organisms fighting over the same food source
What is competition
A group of members of the same species living in the same area at the same time.
What is population
Another name for the organisms that eat plants, pollen, and fruits.
What are the primary consumers?
The study of the interactions between living organisms and their surroundings.
What is Ecology
The number of different species present in one specific ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This type of relationship involves one species “preying” upon another species.
What is predation?
Groups of different species living in the same area at the same time.
What is a Community
The least amount of energy would be available to which organism on the trophic pyramid
What is the tertiary consumer?
The process where individuals with better adapted genes survive and reproduce more successfully. (Survival of the Fittest)
What is Natural Selection?
The complete loss of an entire species
What is an Extinction?
This is a type of feeding relationship in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism
A community and all of the abiotic factors found in a particular area.
What is an Ecosystem
Another name for plants/producers (organisms that can make their own food).
What is an Autotroph?
Plants like lichen and mosses growing where no other organisms have grown before is an example of this.
What is primary succession?
choosing the short-term gains of the individual over the long-term welfare of society
What is the Tragedy of the Commons
This is a type of relationship in which one species feeds off of another (harming it but not killing it).
What is parasitism
All of the areas on Earth where life exists.
What is the biosphere
The amount of energy that works it’s way up the food chain/food web.
What is 10%?
the process of regrowth following a fire
What is secondary succession?
Natural Resources + Ecosystem Services = _________
What is Natural Capital?
The type of feeding relationship in which one species benefits (eats) and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism
Two or more species utilizing different parts of the same resource or using it in different ways.
The law that states that less energy is available to each consumers as you move up a food chain/web.
What is the 2nd law of Thermodynamics
organisms that can live under a wide range of biotic and abiotic conditions.
What is a generalist species?