Ecosystem Showdowns
(Ch. 1)
(Ch. 1)
Food chains and energy pyramids both have this at the base.
What are producers/autotrophs?
A sampling technique that is particularly useful for highly mobile populations.
What is mark-recapture?
Substances that do not dissolve in water.
What are hydrophobic?
Conducted the infamous goose-neck flask experiment.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
Type of growth curve exhibited by population at its biotic potential.
What is exponential growth?
Includes all the members of the same species living in a specific geographical area.
What is population?
An inverted triangle population pyramid is indicative of this.
What is a shrinking/decreasing population?
Sodium (Na) is an example of this category of elements.
What are bulk elements?
To use this type of microscope a specimen is sprayed with a gold coating and “scanned” with a narrow beam of electrons.
What is Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)?
This universal naming system is used to identify individual species.
What is Binomial Nomenclature?
A plant species can only survive within a certain soil composition. This is an example of...
What is range of tolerance?
Example: Maple and spruce trees compete for the same resources.
What is interspecific competition?
The 3 macromolecules.
What are proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates?
Structures found throughout the cytoplasm that helps put together proteins.
What are ribosomes?
What is complementary processes?
Class Mammalia is all a part of this Kingdom.
What is Animalia?
An organism has large numbers of offspring, but pays little to no attention to their offspring demonstrates this type of strategy.
What is r-selected strategy?
Polysaccharides are used for this.
What is energy storage?
Changes shape to move specific molecules in or out of the cell.
What are carrier proteins?
What are phospholipids?
A chemical process where chemical nutrients are used to convert carbon into carbohydrates in the absence of sunlight.
What is chemosynthesis?
The average number of offspring produced by a female member of a population over her lifetime.
What is fecundity?
A fatty acid that contains all the hydrogen atoms that it possibly can.
What is saturated?
Water concentration outside the cell is greater than the water concentration inside the cell.
What is hypotonic?
An energy-carrying biological molecule.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?