Living Things in the Enivironment
What is the name for one living thing?
Organism
What is the definition of birth rate?
The number of births per 1,000 individuals in a given area.
Characteristics that make an individual better suited to a specific environment is a process called?
Natural Selection
An atomic bomb dropped on a forest would create what type of succession
Primary
Continents slowly over earths surface became became known as
Continental drift
Which live in a prairie ecosystem?
Grass
Mushroom
Oak Tree
Woodpecker
Grass
What is the difference between immigration and emigration
im =into a population Em= out of a populaton
What is the role of an organism in its habitat called
Niche
A lichen is a symbiotic relationship between fungi and ?
Algae
What is the name of the one continent earth used to have?
Pangea
What is a Biotic Factor
Temperature
Sunlight
Bacteria
Water
Name four limiting factors.
Weather, space, food, water.
You discover your dog has a tape worm what type of symbiotic relationship is this?
Parasitism
You are the first human in a new area of land what type of species are you?
Pioneer
forces that shape the lands surface by building up mountains and other land masses are know as what?
Constructive
The non-living things that interact with an organism are called what?
Abiotic Factors
When a population reaches all it can support it has reached what?
Carrying capacity.
What are the two types of interactions between organisms?
Competition and adaptation
Somebodies campfire burns down a small forest of tree what is this called?
Secondary
Succession
What is the process that breaks up rocks on the earths surface is known as
Weathering
List in order from smallest to largest the levels of an ecosystem.
Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem
There are 10 flamingos in 8 sq meters. The population density is 1.25 flamingos per square meter. What is the population density of the flamingos at the pond?
2.5 m^2
Who came up with the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
Unless this area is disturbed it remains a what?
Mature community
Quartzite forms when the quartz particles in what ______ Recrystallize ?
Sandstone