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Ecology & Levels of organization
Factors affecting ecosystems
Classification, Naming, and Identification
Evolution
Speciation
100

What is abiotic

The non-living components of an ecosystem

100
Two examples of behavioural adaptations to extreme variations in climate (specifically cold winters)
What are migration and hibernation
100
The two categories use by Aristotle to classify all life on earth
What are the kingdoms animalia and plantae
100
The observation that no two individuals of a species are exactly alike
What is variation
100
The total genes that are present in a population can change over time as more fit become more common. The total genes in the population is called the
What is gene pool?
200
A group of organisms that are not only able, but also likely to interbreed (or are part of the same gene pool)
What is a population
200
The depths of an aquatic ecosystem where photosynthesis is not possible, and organisms must rely on chemosynthesis or detritus to enter the food chain
What is the aphotic zone
200
A group of organisms that lack cellular organelles, and are likely to be found in very salty, acidic, or hot environments
What is the Kingdom archaea
200
Charles Darwin's Famous book on evolution, written in 1859.
What is "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"
200
One means of speciation in which populations (and therefore gene pools) are physically separated, for example, by a body of water.
What is geographical isolation
300
A level of organization that an ecologist would focus on by studying things like symbiotic relationships and predator-prey graphs
What is a community
300
The main factor that affects aquatic ecosystems, but not terrestrial ecosystems
What is pressure
300
A group of heterotrophs that lack a digestive system
What is the Kingdom Fungi
300
Darwin's main body of evidence that he collected while aboard 'The Beagle", which explained that organisms found close together were more similar that organisms found in similar habitats
What is biogeography
300
the one process that assures two different populations could not undergo speciation
What is interbreeding
400
The two main factors that define biomes such as the tundra, rainforest, arid desert, taiga, or grasslands
What are temperature and precipitation
400
The nutrient rich, organic material found in topsoil
What is humus
400
The 4th most specific level of taxonomy
What is Order
400
The idea that limiting factors in the environment result in variable survival of offspring, as observed by economist Thomas Malthus
What is selective pressure
400
The model of evolution supported more by the fossil record than observations of populations in nature
What is a punctuated equilibrium
500
the area of an aquatic ecosystem where organisms that be attached to the substrate, regardless of the levels of light saturation.
What is the benthic zone
500

The difference in the amount of water circulation in spring and fall vs summer and winter, based on the relative density of water at different temperatures

What is seasonal variation

500
The "Father of taxonomy", a Swedish botanist.
Who is Carl Linnaeus
500
This theory explains why it might be evolutionarily advantageous for females to mate with a 'showy' male, even if it decreases her offsprings chance of survival.
What is the sexy son's hypothesis
500
The diversity of the closely related species of "Darwin's Finches" in the Galapagos Islands that all have different beak shapes, well suited to eating different things
What is adaptive radiation