Habitats, Niches, and Species Interactions 1
Habitats, Niches, and Species Interactions 2
Succession
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Resilience 1
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Resilience 2
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An area where an organism lives including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it
What is a habitat?
100
The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions.
What is a niche?
100
A series of gradual changes that occur in a community following a disturbance
What is Ecological Succession?
100
The total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere
What is Biodiversity?
100
Area of Biology focused on preserving and protecting natural resources .
What is Conservation Biology?
200
A species that is not usually abundant in a community yet exerts strong control on the structure of a community
What is a Keystone species?
200
Any necessity of life, such as water, nutrients, light, food, or space
What is a resource?
200
The first species to colonize barren areas, like moss or lichen.
What is a pioneer species?
200
What are the three types of Biodiversity?
Ecosystem Diversity, Species Diversity, Genetic Diversity
200
The ability of a natural or human system to recover after a disturbance.
What is resilience?
300
This states that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche in exactly the same habitat.
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
300
What are the three main types of symbioses?
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism.
300
What does the diagram represent?
Primary Succesion
300
What phenomenon does the image above illustrate?
Diversity increases the resiliency of ecosystems.
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As Biodiversity increases, resilience ______________
Increases
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The relationship between leach and a fish is described as _____________
Parasitism
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The relationship between a barnacle and a whale is considered a ________.
Commensalism
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What type of succession occurs after a wildfire?
Secondary Succession
400
How does Biodiversity benefit medicine?
Many medicines were derived from plants or other organisms
400
How does Biodiversity benefit agriculture?
Most crop plants have wild relatives. These wild plants often carry resistance to disease, pests, or changing climate.
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The symbiotic relationship between a Nile crocodile and an Egyptian Plover is known as a _____________
Mutualism
500
Give an example of a parasitism
Answers will very...
(Examples could be... Dog & Tick, Fish & Leech, Pig and Tapeworm...)
500
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
Primary= Destroyed community or new community, only bare rock present
Secondary= Damaged community, but bits of it still remain
500
Give three strategies for conservation Biology.
Answers will vary...
Examples: Protecting Individual Species, Preserving Ecosystems, Preventing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation, Habitat Restoration, Identifying Biodiversity Hotspots
500
The greatest threat to biodiversity on the planet.
What are Humans?