The process by which an individual of one species hunts, captures, kills, and consumes an individual of another species.
What is predation?
100
Animals that eat both plant and animal food.
What is an omnivore?
100
A nonnative organism that spreads widely in a community.
What is an invasive species?
100
A heritable trait that increases an individual's fitness.
What is an adaptation? (5.1)
200
Changes in DNA that can give rise to genetic variation among individuals.
What are mutations?
200
The process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other.
What is co-evolution? (example)?
200
Organisms that rely on other organisms for energy and nutrients.
What is a consumer or heterotroph?
200
Species that colonize the newly exposed land first.
What are pioneer species?
200
Animals, such as fungi and bacteria, that break down nonliving matter into simpler parts that can then be taken up and reused by primary producers.
What are decomposers? (5.3)
300
Traits that improve an organism's chances for survival and reproduction are passed on more frequently to future generations than those that do not.
What is natural selection?
300
A long-lasting and physically close relationship in which at least one organism benefits.
What is symbiosis?
300
The amount of available energy LOST between trophic levels.
What is about 90%?
300
This occurs when a disturbance is so severe that no vegetation or soil remains, a community is built essentially from scratch.
What is primary succession?
300
The ability to survive and reproduce under changing environmental conditions.
What is tolerance? (5.2)
400
How reproductively successful an organism is in its environment.
What is fitness?
400
Competitive interactions that take place among members of the SAME species.
What is intraspecific competition?
400
Captures energy from the sun and store it in bonds of sugars, making energy available to the rest of the community.
What is an autotroph or primary producer?
400
The zebra mussel, cane toad, honeybee, and kudzu.
What are examples of invasive species?
400
Thunderbirds
What is the mascot of the original Lakota High School.
500
The formation of new types of organisms once a population becomes reproductively isolated from another population.
What is speciation
500
Plants are able to grow in the shady, moist, and nutrient-rich area beneath the palo verde tree in the Sonoran Desert.
What is an example of commensalism?
500
Animals, such as millipedes and soil insects, that consume nonliving organic matter including leaf litter, waste products, and the dead bodies of other community members.
What are detritivores?
500
Forest Fires, plowing, strong windstorms lead to this. (Hint, soil is relatively undisturbed)
What is secondary succession
500
Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?