Type of communication ants are using when they touch antenna.
What is tactile?
100
These are two characteristics of K-selected populations.
What are few offspring, reproduce later in life, good parental care, good chances of survival?
100
In this type of relationship one species benefits and another is neither harmed or helped.
What is commensalism?
100
These organisms must form the base of all food webs.
What are producers?
100
Geese follow people if they are the first thing they see move after hatching. This is due to:
What is imprinting?
200
These chemicals are used to pass information between members of the same species.
What are pheromones?
200
Factors that affect all members of a population no matter how big the population is.
What are density independent?
200
According to this idea two species cannot occupy the same niche.
What is competitive exclusion?
200
These organisms recycle all of the matter in an ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
200
Organisms will give up food, mates and their own life in order to insure that their genes will be passed down due to their relatives surviving. This is due to:
What is altruistic behavior?
300
Every time your dog comes when you whistle you give him a treat. After a month he comes when you whistle. This is an example of:
What is conditioning?
300
This happens as N approaches K and the reason is:
What is population growth slows until it approaches zero because density dependent factors act as limiting factors to decrease births?
300
One way that species with similar niches can stay in the same area is by using this strategy.
What is resource partitioning?
300
If 30,000 kcal are produced by the autotrophs, this is the amount of energy expected in the secondary consumer level.
What is 300 kcal?
300
When a plant grow toward the light or bee flies toward a bright yellow color, it is due to specific movement toward a stimulus. This is called:
What is taxis?
400
Your Dad is working the early shift and his alarm goes off at 4:00 am. For a week it wakes you up, but after that you don't hear it. This is an example of:
What is habituation?
400
Bacteria will experience this type of growth when they have ideal conditions.
What is exponential?
400
This occurs after a flood destroys an area and pioneer plants start to reestablish the area.
What is secondary succession?
400
This process gets nitrogen out of the soil and allows plants to use it.
What is nitrogen fixation by bacteria in the nodules of legumes?
400
Bright red salamanders look just like a poisonous newt. This is an example of this type of defense.
What is mimicry?
500
After a stroke people can relearn to walk and talk, their brain is able to build new paths and adapt to new tasks. This is due to:
What is behavior plasticity?
500
These are the reasons populations live in a clumped pattern.
What is resources are limited and are unevenly distributed.
500
An species of organism is lost from a pond due to disease. because of this loss the biodiversity of the pond decreases drastically. This species was most likely:
What is a keystone species?
500
Name two things that increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What are the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation (the cutting of trees)?
500
This part of the globe has the greatest biodiversity.
What is close to the equator? It lowers as you move toward the poles.